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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.
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  
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  
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 Feld,
Director, G. H. Spectroscopy Laboratory		 Jan Egedal-Pedersen

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

Mildred S. Dresselhaus Mehran Kardar Jeffrey Gore Earl S. Marmar,
Senior Research Scientist
John King Nuh Gedik George Koster J. David Litster Miklos Porkolab,
Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Daniel Kleppner Thomas J. Greytak,
Associate Department Head for Education 		Patrick A. Lee,
Division Head		 Leonid Mirny Richard Temkin,
Senior Research Scientist
David E. Pritchard Eric W. Hudson Leonid S. Levitov H. Sebastian Seung  
Vladan Vuletic Karl U. Ingard Marin Soljacic Alexander van Oudenaarden  
Martin Zwierlein Erich P. Ippen Senthil Todadri    
  Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Xiao-Gang Wen    
  Marc A. Kastner      
  Benjamin Lax      
  Young S. Lee      
  Peter A. Wolff      
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION PHYSICS INTERMEDIATE ENERGY PHYSICS
Ulrich J. Becker Gunther Roland Wit Busza William Barletta
Janet Conrad Lawrence Rosenson Min Chen Aron Bernstein
Peter Fisher, Division Head Gabriella Sciolla Eric Cosman William Bertozzi
Joseph Formaggio Frank E. Taylor, Senior Research Scientist Lee Grodzins Peter Demos
Jerome I. Friedman Samuel C. C. Ting Gunther Roland William Donnelly, Senior Research Scientist
Vera Kistiakowsky Boleslaw Wyslouch Boleslaw Wyslouch Anthony French
Markus Klute Richard K. Yamamoto   Stanley B. Kowalski
Jocelyn Monroe   June L. Matthews
Steven Nahn     Richard G. Milner, Director, Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Louis S. Osborne     Robert P. Redwine,
Director, Bates Linear Accelerator Center
Christoph M. E. Paus     Bernd Surrow
Irwin Pless    

PARTICLE THEORY NUCLEAR THEORY
Allan Adams Michel Baranger
Edward Farhi,
Director, Center for Theoretical Physics		 Arthur K. Kerman
Jeffrey Goldstone Earle Lomon
Alan H. Guth Ernest J. Moniz, Director, Energy Studies
Kerson Huang John W. Negele
Roman W. Jackiw Krishna Rajagopal
Robert L. Jaffe Iain W. Stewart
Hong Liu  
John McGreevy  
Washington Taylor  
Frank Wilczek  
James Young  
Barton Zwiebach  
Italicized names denote emeriti faculty.