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Faculty: By Area of Research
Physics Research Divisions:

  1. Astrophysics

  2. Atomic, Condensed Matter, and Plasma Physics

  3. Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics

  4. Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics
Italicized names denote emeriti faculty.
COMPACT OBJECTS
X-ray Binary Evolution Gravitation    
Hale Bradt Paul C. Joss Edmund Bertschinger, Department Head    
Claude Canizares, Vice President for Research and Associate Provost; Associate Director for MIT, Chandra X-ray Observatory Center Saul Rappaport Scott A. Hughes    
Deepto Chakrabarty, Astrophysics Division Head   Erotokritos Katsavounidis    
George Clark   Nergis Mavalvala    
Walter H. G. Lewin   Rainer Weiss    
Saul Rappaport      
COSMOLOGY
Optical Radio Theory X-ray  
Paul Schechter Bernard Burke Edmund Bertschinger, Department Head Claude Canizares, Vice President for Research and Associate Provost; Associate Director for MIT, Chandra X-ray Observatory Center  
Robert Simcoe Jacqueline Hewitt, Director, Center for Space Research Alan H. Guth Enectali (Tali) Figueroa-Feliciano  
Joshua Winn   Max Tegmark    
OTHER
Space Plasma Physics

Planets & Brown Dwarfs

     
John Belcher Adam Burgasser      
Stanislaw Olbert James L. Elliot, Director, Wallace Astrophysical Observatory      
Joshua Winn      
ATOMIC CONDENSED MATTER EXPERIMENT CONDENSED MATTER THEORY BIOPHYSICS PLASMA PHYSICS
Isaac Chuang Raymond Ashoori A. Nihat Berker George B. Benedek Bruno Coppi
Ali Javan Robert J. Birgeneau John D. Joannopoulos Michael S. Feld, Director, G. H. Spectroscopy Laboratory Jan Egedal-Pedersen

Wolfgang Ketterle, Director, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

Mildred S. Dresselhaus Mehran Kardar J. David Litster Earl S. Marmar, Senior Research Scientist
John King Nuh Gedik George Koster Leonid Mirny Miklos Porkolab, Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Daniel Kleppner Thomas J. Greytak, Associate Department Head for Education Patrick A. Lee, Division Head H. Sebastian Seung

Richard Temkin, Senior Research Scientist

David E. Pritchard Eric W. Hudson Leonid S. Levitov Alexander van Oudenaarden  
Vladan Vuletic Karl U. Ingard Marin Soljacic    
Martin Zwierlein Erich P. Ippen Laszlo Tisza    
  Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Senthil Todadri    
  Marc A. Kastner Xiao-Gang Wen    
  Benjamin Lax      
  Young S. Lee      
  Peter A. Wolff      
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION PHYSICS INTERMEDIATE ENERGY PHYSICS    
Ulrich J. Becker Wit Busza Aron Bernstein    
Peter Fisher, Division Head Min Chen William Barletta
 
Joseph Formaggio Eric Cosman William Bertozzi    
Jerome I. Friedman Lee Grodzins Peter Demos    
Robert Hulsizer Gunther Roland William Donnelly, Senior Research Scientist    
Vera Kistiakowsky Boleslaw Wyslouch Anthony French    
Steven Nahn   Stanley B. Kowalski    
Louis S. Osborne   June L. Matthews    
Christoph M. E. Paus   Richard G. Milner, Director, Laboratory for Nuclear Science    
Irwin Pless  

Robert P. Redwine,
Director, Bates Linear Accelerator Center

   
Gunther Roland   Bernd Surrow    
Lawrence Rosenson        
Gabriella Sciolla        
Frank E. Taylor, Senior Research Scientist        
Samuel C. C. Ting        
Boleslaw Wyslouch        
Richard K. Yamamoto        
PARTICLE THEORY NUCLEAR THEORY      
Edward Farhi, Director, Center for Theoretical Physics Michel Baranger      
Jeffrey Goldstone Arthur K. Kerman      
Alan H. Guth Earle Lomon      
Kerson Huang Ernest J. Moniz, Director of Energy Studies      
Roman W. Jackiw John W. Negele      
Robert L. Jaffe Krishna Rajagopal      
Hong Liu Iain W. Stewart      
John McGreevy        
Washington Taylor        
Frank Wilczek        
James Young        
Barton Zwiebach        
Italicized names denote emeriti faculty.