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List of Professors
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R. Paul Drake |
Professor of Space Science & Climate Professor of Physics |
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George Palmer Williams |
1841 - 1881 |
Professor of Physics, Mathematics and Languages Principal of U of M Oakland and Pontiac Branches Chair of Mathematics and Physics |
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Alexander Winchell |
1853 - 1891 |
Professor of Physics Professor/Chair Civil Engineering 1853-1855 Professor Geology, Zoology and Botany 1855-1873 |
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William Guy Peck |
1855 - 1857 | Professor/Chair Civil Engineering, Physics 1855-1857 |
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DeVolson Wood |
1857 - 1872 | Professor/Chair Civil Engineering and Physics 1857-1872 |
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John William Langley |
1875 - 1889 | Professor of Physics, Electrical Engineering, Chemistry and Metallurgy |
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Charles Kasson Wead |
1877 - 1885 | Acting Professor of Physics |
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Dewitt Bristol Brace |
1886 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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George Washington Patterson |
1889 - 1930 |
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Junior Professor of Physics |
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Henry Smith Carhart |
1889 - 1912 | Professor of Physics |
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John Oren Reed |
1892 - 1916 |
Dean of the Literary Department Professor of Physics |
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Karl Eugen Guthe |
1893 - 1900 1909 - 1915 |
Professor of Physics Dean of the Graduate Department 1912-1915 |
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Augustus Trowbridge |
1898 - 1901 | Instructor in Physics |
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Harrison McAllister Randall |
1901 - 1940 |
Professor of Physics Chair Department of Physics |
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Lyman F. Morehouse |
1902 - 1910 |
Instructor in Electrical Engineering Instructor in Physics |
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Arthur Whitmore Smith |
1903 - 1944 | Professor of Physics |
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William D. Henderson |
1903 - 1936 |
Professor of Physics Director of University Extension Division |
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Walter Francis Colby |
1906 - 1950 | Professor of Physics |
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Neil Hooker Williams |
1908 - 1941 | Professor of Physics, Mathematics and Languages |
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Daniel L. Rich |
1908 - 1949 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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George Allan Lindsay |
1913 - 1950 | Professor of Physics |
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Felix Wladyslaw Pawlowski |
1914 - 1946 |
Guggenheim Professor of Aeronautical Engineering Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Physics Chair Aeronautical Engineering 1922-1939 |
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Charles Ferdinand Meyer |
1915 - 1950 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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David Locke Webster |
1917 - 1919 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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William Warner Sleator |
1918 - 1953 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Ralph Alanson Sawyer |
1919 - 1965 |
Professor of Physics Dean of the Graduate School Director of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project |
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Ernest F. Barker |
1922 - 1956 |
Professor of Physics Chair Department of Physics |
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James M. Cork |
1922 - 1957 | Professor of Physics |
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Ora S. Duffendack |
1922 - 1943 | Professor of Physics |
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Oskar Klein |
1923 - 1925 | Instructor in Physics |
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Floyd Alburn Firestone |
1924 - 1945 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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David M. Dennison |
1927 - 1970 |
Professor of Physics Chair Department of Physics |
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Samuel A. Goudsmit |
1927 - 1946 | Professor of Physics |
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Otto Laporte |
1927 - 1971 | Professor of Physics |
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George E. Uhlenbeck |
1927 - 1935 1939 - 1960 |
Professor of Physics |
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Ralph A. Wolfe |
1930 | Professor of Physics |
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H. Richard Crane |
1934 - 1978 |
Professor of Phhysics Chair of Department of Physics |
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Robley C. Williams |
1935 - 1950 |
Professor of Physics and Bio Physics Professor of Astronomy |
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Claud Edwin Cleeton |
1936 | Instructor in Physics |
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Arthur Adel |
1942 - 1948 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Theodore H. Berlin |
1943 - 1946 |
Research Associate of Chemistry Research Physicist Engineering Research Institute Navy Theoretical Physicist |
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Robert Wallace Pidd |
1944 - 1959 | Professor of Physics |
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Marcellus L Wiedenbeck |
1945 - 1986 | Professor of Physics |
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Ernst Katz |
1946 - 1979 | Professor of Physics |
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Wayne E. Hazen |
1947 - 1984 | Professor of Physics |
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W. Wallace McCormick |
1947 - 1977 | Professor of Physics |
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William C. Parkinson |
1947 - 1988 | Professor of Physics |
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William A. Nierenberg |
1948 - 1950 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Sir Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland |
1949 - 1956 | Professor of Physics |
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Donald Arthur Glaser |
1949 - 1960 | Professor of Physics |
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Paul Van Campen Hough |
1949 - 1962 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Edwin S. Lennox |
1949 - 1955 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Cyrus Levinthal |
1950 - 1957 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Murray Slotnick |
1950 - 1951 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Kenneth Myron Case |
1950 - 1968 | Professor of Physics |
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Lawrence W. Jones |
1952 - 1998 | Professor of Physics |
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Samuel Krimm |
1952 - 2001 | Professor of Physics |
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Kent M. Terwilliger |
1952 - 1989 | Professor of Physics |
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Noah Sherman |
1952 - 1978 | Professor of Physics |
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Joaquin M. Luttinger |
1953 - 1958 | Professor of Physics |
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Charles S Simons |
1954 - 1970 | Assistant Professor of Radiation Physics |
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Karl T. Hecht |
1955 - 1997 | Professor of Physics |
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Paul R Chagnon |
1955 - 1961 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Peter A. Franken |
1956 - 1973 | Professor of Physics |
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Martin L. Perl |
1956 - 1963 | Professor of Physics |
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George H Trilling |
1956 - 1960 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Donald I. Meyer |
1957 - 1996 | Professor of Physics |
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Richard H. Sands |
1957 - 1994 | Professor of Physics |
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Daniel Sinclair |
1957 - 1996 | Professor of Physics |
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Donald Allen Gilbert |
1957 - 1958 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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George W. Ford |
1958 - 1997 | Professor of Physics |
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Alfred Z. Hendel |
1958 - 1987 | Professor of Physics |
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Robert R. Lewis |
1958 - 1992 | Professor of Physics |
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John van der Velde |
1958 - 1995 | Professor of Physics |
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C. Tristram Coffin |
1959 - 1997 | Professor of Physics |
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Irwin Goldberg |
1959 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Byron P. Roe |
1959 - 2006 | Professor of Physics |
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Robert S. Tickle |
1960 - 1999 | Professor of Physics |
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Herbert M. S. Uberall |
1960 - 1962 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Gabriel Weinreich |
1960 - 1995 | Professor of Physics |
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Oliver E Overseth |
1961 - 1992 | Professor of Physics |
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Charles Roy Worthington |
1961 - 1967 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Paul E. Phillipson |
1961 - 1962 | Associate Research Physicist |
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Peter R. Fontana |
1962 - 1965 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Alfred Chi-Tai Wu |
1962 - 1999 | Professor of Physics |
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Jens Zorn |
1962 - 2009 | Professor of Physics |
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Michael J. Longo |
1962 - 2008 | Professor of Physics |
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Marc Ross |
1963 - 2001 | Professor of Physics |
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T. Michael Sanders |
1963 - 2000 | Professor of Physics |
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Frank E. Rose |
1963 - 1994 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Alan D. Krisch |
1964 - 2009 | Professor of Physics |
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C. Thornton Murphy |
1964 - 1967 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Walter S. Gray |
1964 - 2002 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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John Bardwick III |
1965 - 1996 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Joachim W Janecke |
1965 - 1998 | Professor of Physics |
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James J. Reidy |
1965 - 1971 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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William L. Williams |
1965 - 1986 | Professor of Physics and Bio Physics |
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Gordon L. Kane |
1965 - 2019 | Professor of Physics |
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Raulf M. Polichar |
1966 - 1974 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Arthur Rich |
1966 - 1990 | Professor of Physics |
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York Peng (Ed) Yao |
1966 - 2008 | Professor of Physics |
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J. Wehrley Chapman |
1966 - 2008 | Professor of Physics |
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Yukio Tomozawa |
1966 - 2004 | Professor of Physics |
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Richard T. Robiscoe |
1966 - 1969 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Harvey A. Gould |
1967 - 1971 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Brian E. Springett |
1967 - 1970 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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John F. Ward |
1967 - 2000 | Professor of Physics |
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Bruce B. Cork |
1968 - 1974 | Professor of Physics |
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A. Lincoln Read |
1968 - 1970 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Frank S. Henyey |
1969 - 1974 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Leonard M. Sander |
1969 - 2015 | Professor of Physics and Complex Systems |
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C. M. Venkatachalam |
1970 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Lincoln Wolfestein |
1970 | Visiting Professor of Physics |
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Michael Bretz |
1973 - 2008 | Professor of Physics |
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Frederick D. Becchetti |
1973 - 2013 | Professor of Physics |
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Rudolf Paul Thun |
1974 - 2012 | Professor of Physics |
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Jean P. Krisch |
1974 - 2017 | Professor of Physics |
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Thomas Witten Jr |
1975 - 1981 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Dennis J. Hegyi |
1975 - 2004 | Professor of Physics |
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Robert N. Cahn |
1976 - 1978 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Martin B. Einhorn |
1976 - 2004 | Professor of Physics |
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Mark A. Skalsey |
1976 - 2008 | Associate Research Scientist & Lecturer in Physics |
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Daniel Axelrod |
1977 - 2005 | Professor of Physics |
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Robert Savit |
1978 - 2017 | Professor of Physics |
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Lawrence R. Sulak |
1979 - 1986 | Professor of Physics |
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Carl E. Wieman |
1979 - 1984 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Ralph S Conti |
1979 - 2015 | Associate Research Scientist, Physics |
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Martinus J. Veltman |
1980 - 1997 | Professor of Physics |
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David Noel Williams |
1980 - 1999 | Professor of Physics |
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George Gamota |
1981 - 1986 |
Professor of Physics Director, Institute of Science and Technology |
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Ali Maung Thet Lin |
1981 - 2003 | Associate Research Scientist, Physics |
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Richard S. Raymond |
1982 - 2009 | Associate Research Scientist Emeritus |
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David W. Gidley |
1982 - 2015 | Professor of Physics |
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Ari Gafni |
1983 - 2017 |
Professor of Biophysics, LSA Professor of Biological Chemistry, Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology |
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Esher Ben Jacob |
1984 - 1989 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Gregory Tarlé |
1984 - 2022 | Professor of Physics |
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Duncan Steel |
1985 - 2023 |
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Professor of Physics |
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James W. Allen |
1987 - 2010 | Professor of Physics |
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Gregory R. Snow |
1987 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Gerhard E. Wagner |
1987 - 1990 |
Professor of Physics Professor of Biological Chemistry |
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Homer A. Neal |
1987 - 2018 |
Professor and Chair of Physics 1987-1993 Vice President for Research 1993-1997 Interim President 1996-1997 |
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Stephen C. Rand |
1987 - 2020 | Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering & Physics |
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Rombout Hoogerbeets |
1988 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Jawaid W. Rasul |
1988 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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John L. Gland |
1988 - 2009 | Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Chemical Engineering |
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Steven B. Dierker |
1989 - 2006 | Professor of Physics and Applied Physics |
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Meigan C. Aronson |
1990 - 2006 | Professor of Physics |
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Philip H. Bucksbaum |
1990 - 2006 |
Professor of Physics Peter Franken Distinguished University Professor |
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Stephen Fahy |
1990 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Yaroslav S. Derbenev |
1990 - 2001 | Visiting Research Scientist, Adjunct Professor of Physics |
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Mark A. Saper |
1990 - 2021 |
Associate Professor of Biophysics Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry |
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Frederick C. MacKintosh |
1991 - 2002 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Katherine Freese |
1991 - 2019 | Professor of Physics |
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Robin G. Stuart |
1992 - 1999 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Valentine I. Zakharov |
1993 - 1998 | Professor of Physics |
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Richard A. Goldstein |
1993 - 2003 |
Associate Professor of Chemistry Associate Research Scientist, Academic Program Chair, Biophysics Research Division |
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Boris Y. Dubetsky |
1993 - 2002 | Associate Research Scientist |
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Paul R. Berman |
1993 - 2016 | Professor of Physics |
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Alberto G. Rojo |
1994 - 2003 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Stuart Field |
1994 - 1997 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Charles Rogers Doering |
1996 - 2021 | Professor of Complex Systems |
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Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy |
1996 - 2023 | Professor of Chemistry & Biophysics & Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering |
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Michael J. Duff |
1999 - 2005 | Professor of Physics |
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David A. Reis |
1999 - 2009 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Codrin Nicolae Cionca |
1999 - 2014 | Assistant Research Scientist in Physics |
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Christopher R. Monroe |
2000 - 2007 |
Associate Professor of Physics Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering |
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Alexei V. Tkachenko |
2001 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Thomas R. Wright |
2001 - 2013 | Assistant Research Scientist, Physics |
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Samuel M. Moukouri |
2004 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Marcus Spradlin |
2005 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Luming Duan |
2006 - 2018 |
Enrico Fermi Collegiate Professor of Physics Professor of Physics |
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Aaron Edward Leanhardt |
2007 - 2014 | Assistant Professor of Physics |
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Kathryn Zurek |
2008 - 2014 | Associate Professor of Physics |
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Jie Pan |
2012 - 2015 | Assistant Research Scientist in Physics |
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Michele Papucci |
2013 - 2014 | Associate Professor of Physics |