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Department Chairs

1920–1941: David Webster
1941–1948: Paul Kirkpatrick
1948–1966: Leonard Schiff
1966–1970: Arthur Schawlow
1970–1977: Walter Meyerhof
1977–1982: Dirk Walecka
1982–1986: Stanley Wojcicki
1986–1990: Alexander Fettera
1990–1993: Steven Chu
1993–1996: Douglas Osheroff
1996–1999: Blas Cabrera
1999–2000: Steven Chu
2001–2004: Douglas Osheroff
2004–2007: Stanley Wojcicki
2007–2010: Patricia Burchat
2010–present: Steven Kahn

Faculty and Postdocs

1920–1976: David Webster II
- 1920–1954: Professor of Physics
- 1954–1976: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1925–1982: Frederick Terman
- 1925–1937: Instructor to Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1937–1945: Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1945–1958: Dean, School of Engineering
- 1955–1965: Provost
- 1959–1965: Vice President
- 1965–1982: Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering
1931–1992: Paul Kirkpatrick
- 1931–1932: Acting Associate Professor
- 1932–1937: Associate Professor
- 1937–1959: Professor
- 1959–1992: Emeritus Professor
1934–1945: Norris Bradbury, Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
1934–1949: William Hansen
- 1934–1937: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1937–1942: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1942–1949: Professor of Physics
1934–1983: Felix Bloch
- 1934–1936: Acting Associate Professor of Physics
- 1936–1962: Professor of Physics
- 1962–1971: Max H. Stein Professor of Physics
- 1971–1983: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1936–1972: Stephen Timoshenko
- 1936–1944: Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- 1944–1972: Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering
1944–1971: Leonard Schiff
- 1944–1947: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1948–1971: Professor of Physics
1946–1947: Edward Ginzton, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
1947–2005: Marvin Chodorow
- 1947–1950: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1950–1954: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1954–1975: Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering
- 1975–1978: Barbara Kimball Browning Professor of Applied Physics
- 1978–2005: Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
1949–1950: Marshall Rosenbluth, Instructor in Physics
1949–2006: Walter Meyerhof
- 1949–1959: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
- 1959–1992: Professor
- 1992–2006: Emeritus Professor, Physics
1950–1952: Erwin Hahn
- 1950–1951: NRC Fellow
- 1951–1952: Instructor in Physics
1950–1952: Sidney Drell, Instructor in Physics
1950–1990: Robert Hofstadter
- 1950–1971: Associate Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1971–1985: Max H. Stein Professor of Physics
- 1985–1990: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1951–1952: Ernest Henley, Research Associate
1951–1956: Willis Lamb Jr., Professor
1951–1963: Wolfgang "Pief" Panofsky, Professor of Physics
1951–1997: Menahem Schiffer
- 1951–1976: Professor of Mathematics
- 1976–1997: Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
1956–1961: Henry Kendall
- 1956–1957: Research Associate, High Energy Laboratory
- 1957–1958: Lecturer in Physics
- 1958–1961: Assistant Professor of Physics
1956–1962: George Pake, Professor of Physics
1956–1963: Burton Richter
- 1956–1960: Research Associate, High Energy Physics Laboratory
- 1960–1963: Assistant Professor of Physics
1956–1963: Sidney Drell, Professor of Physics
1957–1960: Jerome Friedman, Research Associate, High Energy Physics Laboratory
1959–1987: J. Dirk Walecka
- 1959–1960: NSF Fellow
- 1960–1966: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1966–1987: Professor of Physics
1959–1989: William Fairbank Sr.
- 1959–1985: Professor to Max H. Stein Professor of Physics
- 1985–1989: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1960–1979: James "BJ" Bjorken
- 1960–1960: Research Associate
- 1961–1979: Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
1960–1987: Gerald Pearson
- 1960–1971: Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1971–1987: Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, Solid State Electronics Laboratories
1960–2003: Edward Teller
- 1960–1975: Professor, Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace
- 1975–2003: Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace
1961–1962: Sheldon Glashow, Assistant Professor of Physics
1961–1999: Arthur Schawlow
- 1961–1978: Professor of Physics
- 1978–1991: J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Physics
- 1991–1999: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1962–1988: Andreas Acrivos, Professor of Chemical Engineering
1962–2004: William Spicer
- 1962–1978: Assistant Professor to Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1978–2004: Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering
1963–1989: William Shockley
- 1963–1974: Alexander M. Poniatoff Professor of Engineering Science
- 1974–1989: Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering
1965–present: Alexander Fetter
- 1965–1968: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1968–1974: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1974–2007: Professor of Physics
- 2007–present: Professor Emeritus of Physics
1966–1967: Arthur Jaffe, Acting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
1966–1969: Neville Smith, Research Associate
1966–1970: Robert White, Assistant Professor of Physics
1966–1983: Melvin Schwartz, Professor of Physics
1966–present: Stanley Wojcicki
- 1966–1968: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1968–1974: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1974–present: Professor of Physics
1967–1970: Gene Sprouse
- 1967–1969: Research Associate in Physics
- 1969–1970: Assistant Professor of Physics
1967–present: Arthur Bienenstock
- 1967–1972: Associate Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics
- 1972–present: Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics
- 2003–2006: Vice Provost and Dean, Research and Graduate Policy
1968–1969: Eric Adelberger, Research Associate
1969–1975: William Bardeen, Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
1969–present: Robert Byer
- 1969–1974: Assistant Professor of Applied Physics
- 1974–1979: Associate Professor of Applied Physics
- 1979–present: Professor of Applied Physics
- 1987–1992: Vice Provost and Dean of Research
1970–2000: George "Bud" Homsy
- 1970–1976: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1976–1979: Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1979–2000: Professor of Chemical Engineering
1974–1977: Rudolf Kompfner, Professor of Applied Physics
1974–1981: Clifford Will, Assistant Professor of Physics
1974–1982: Claude Lyneis
- 1974–1979: Research Associate, High Energy Physics Laboratory
- 1979–1982: Senior Research Associate, High Energy Physics Laboratory
1974–present: Malcolm Beasley
- 1974–1980: Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
- 1980–2010: Professor to Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor of Applied Physics
- 1998–2001: Dean, School of Humanities and Sciences
- 2010–present: Professor to Applied Physics, Emeritus
1975–1978: Parviz Moin, Research Assistant
1975–present: Blas Cabrera
- 1975–1979: Research Associate
- 1979–1980: Senior Research Associate
- 1980–1981: Acting Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1981–1984: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1984–1991: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1991–present: Professor of Physics
1976–1978: Jonathan Dorfan, Research Associate
1976–1982: Stuart Freedman, Assistant Professor of Physics
1978–1978: Michael Turner, Instructor in Physics
1978–2009: W. Conyers Herring
- 1978–1981: Professor of Applied Physics
- 1981–2009: Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics
1978–present: Leonard Susskind
- 1978–2000: Professor of Physics
- 2000–present: Felix Bloch Professor of Physics
1979–2002: C. Chapin Cutler, Professor to Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics
1980–1981: Chris Greene, Research Associate
1980–1982: Parviz Moin, Acting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
1980–1983: Roger Falcone, Marvin Chodorow Fellow, Department of Applied Physics
1985–present: Robert Laughlin
- 1985–1989: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1989–1993: Professor of Physics
- 1992–present: Anne Bass and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics
1986–present: Parviz Moin
- 1986–1989: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- 1989–present: Professor to Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering
1987–1991: Ann E. Nelson, Assistant Professor of Physics
1987–2004: Steven Chu
- 1987–1990: Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
- 1990–2004: Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
1987–present: Douglas Osheroff, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
1989–present: Zhi-Xun "ZX" Shen
- 1989–1990: Research Associate
- 1991–1992: Acting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1991–1996: Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science
- 1996–2000: Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science
- 2000–present: Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science
- 2006–present: Paul Pigott Professor in Physical Sciences
1990–present: Andrei Linde, Professor of Physics
1993–2000: Michael May, Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation
1995–present: Patricia Burchat
- 1995–2000: Associate Professor of Physics
- 2000–present: Professor of Physics
1998–present: James "BJ" Bjorken, Emeritus Professor of Physics
2000–present: Joachim Stöhr, Professor of Photon Science
2003–present: Steven Kahn
- 2003–2005: Professor of Physics
- 2005–present: Cassius Lamb Kirk Professor in the Natural Sciences
2004–present: Steven Kivelson, Professor of Physics
2005–present: Siegfried Hecker, Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation
2006–present: Philip Bucksbaum
- 2006–2009: Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
- 2009–present: Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science
2013–present: Steven Chu, William R. Keenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities and Sciences

PhDs

1932: William Hansen
1940: Edward Ginzton
1951: Carson Jeffries
1951: Richard Post
1952: Leonard Rieser
1955: Theodore Maiman
1959: James "BJ" Bjorken
1961: C. Kumar N. Patel
1961: Douglas Scalapino
1962: Robert Griffiths
1962: Richard Taylor
1963: Leroy Chang
1964: Robert White
1965: Allen Goldman
1967: John Marburger III
1967: Miklos Porkolab
1967: Helen Quinn
1968: Gene Sprouse
1969: Robert Byer
1969: Fazle Hussain
1969: L. Gary Leal
1970: John Holdren
1971: Francis DiSalvo
1974: Claude Lyneis
1975: Blas Cabrera
1976: Wick Haxton
1977: Carl Wieman
1978: Parviz Moin
1978: Michael Turner
1979: Roger Falcone
1980: Mark Wise
1985: Frances Hellman
1986: Patricia Burchat
1989: Zhi-Xun "ZX" Shen

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