Physics Department Faculty 

Department Chair: Steven Kahn

You can also view faculty organized by research interest,
or view the historical faculty listings.

• Tom Abel
• Steven Allen
• Roger Blandford
• Phil Bucksbaum
  
• Patricia Burchat
• Blas Cabrera
• Sarah Church
• Savas Dimopoulos
• Sebastian Doniach
• Stefan Funk
• David Goldhaber-Gordon
• Peter Graham
  
• Giorgio Gratta
• Sean Hartnoll
• Leo Hollberg
  
• Shamit Kachru
• Steven Kahn
• Renata Kallosh
• Aharon Kapitulnik
• Mark Kasevich
• Steven Kivelson
• Chao-Lin Kuo
  
• Robert Laughlin
• Andrei Linde
• Hari Manoharan
• Peter F. Michelson
• Kathryn A. Moler
• Douglas D. Osheroff
• Vahe Petrosian
• Xiao-Liang Qi
• Srinivas Raghu
  
• Roger W. Romani
• Philip H. Scherrer
• Leonardo Senatore
  
• Zhi-Xun Shen
• Stephen Shenker
• Eva Silverstein
• Leonard Susskind
• Risa Wechsler
• Shoucheng Zhang
  

Faculty by Courtesy

• Rhiju Das (Biochemistry faculty)
• Benjamin Lev (Applied Physics faculty)
  
• Craig Levin (Radiology - Molecular Imaging)
  
• Stephen Quake (Bioengineering faculty)
  
• Richard Zare (Chemistry faculty)
  
  
• HEPL Research faculty:
• C.W. Francis Everitt

Emeritus Faculty

• Steven Chu (DOE, Jan. 2009)
• Alexander Fetter
• Stanley Hanna
• John A. Lipa
• William A. Little
• David Ritson
• H. Alan Schwettman
• Todd Smith
• Peter A. Sturrock
• Richard Taylor
• John Turneaure
• Robert V. Wagoner
• J. Dirk Walecka
• Stanley G. Wojcicki
• Mason R. Yearian

Recently Deceased Faculty

• William M. Fairbank (September 30, 1989)
• Robert Hofstadter (November 17, 1990)
• Arthur Schawlow (April 28, 1999)
• Jeff Willick (June 18, 2000)
• Arthur BC Walker II  (April 29, 2001)
• Walter Meyerhof (May 27, 2006)
• Melvin Schwartz (August 28, 2006)

Former Faculty, at new institutions

• Charles Marcus (to Harvard, Sept., 2001)
  
• Scott Thomas (to Rutgers, Sept.1, 2005)
• Vladan Vuletic (to MIT, 2003)