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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   Nergis Mavalvala
George Clark   Rainer Weiss
Walter H. G. Lewin    
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; Associate Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics

Mildred S. Dresselhaus Mehran Kardar Jeff 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 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 Christoph M. E. Paus Wit Busza William Barletta
Janet Conrad Irwin Pless Min Chen Aron Bernstein
Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano Gunther Roland Eric Cosman William Bertozzi
Peter Fisher, Division Head Lawrence Rosenson Lee Grodzins Peter Demos
Joseph Formaggio Gabriella Sciolla Gunther Roland William Donnelly, Senior Research Scientist
Jerome I. Friedman Frank E. Taylor, Senior Research Scientist Boleslaw Wyslouch Anthony French
Vera Kistiakowsky Samuel C. C. Ting   Stanley B. Kowalski
Markus Klute Boleslaw Wyslouch   June L. Matthews
Jocelyn Monroe Richard K. Yamamoto   Richard G. Milner, Director, Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Steven Nahn     Robert P. Redwine,
Director, Bates Linear Accelerator Center
Louis S. Osborne     Bernd Surrow
COSMOLOGY
Alan H. Guth
ENERGY RESEARCH
Ernest J. Moniz, Director, Energy Studies
FIELD THEORY
Edward Farhi, Director, Center for Theoretical Physics Roman W. Jackiw Iain W. Stewart
Jeffrey Goldstone Robert L. Jaffe Frank Wilczek
PHENOMENOLOGY
Beyond the Standard Model: Probing the Standard Model:
Frank Wilczek William Donnelly, Senior Research Scientist
  Robert L. Jaffe
  Iain W. Stewart
QCD
Hadron Structure: Lattice QCD: Condensed Matter of QCD:
William Donnelly, Senior Research Scientist John W. Negele Edward Farhi
Robert L. Jaffe   Robert L. Jaffe
Frank Wilczek   Krishna Rajagopal,
Associate Department Head for Education
    Frank Wilczek
QUANTUM COMPUTING
Edward Farhi Jeffrey Goldstone  
STRING THEORY
Daniel Freedman John McGreevy Barton Zwiebach
Hong Liu Washington Taylor IV  

 

 
Italicized names denote emeriti faculty.