Peter Pearson is a consulting cryptologist living near Aptos, California. From a formal education in quantum chemistry (Caltech and Berkeley), he wandered through computer science and software engineering into cryptology in the 1980's.
In contrast to Wikipedia's poorly documented but official User Committed Identity scheme, Peter simply asserts that he is the one who knows the SHA-1 preimage of eaae95ed f52c5d31 ad49f952 44f2c554 e9b0b012.