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Faculty and Postdocs
- 1894–1897: Arthur Day, Instructor in Physics
- 1904–1908: Max Mason, Assistant Professor, Sheffield Scientific School
- 1915–1951: John Zeleny
- 1915–1940: Professor of Physics
- 1940–1951: Emeritus Professor of Physics
- 1917–1948: Alan Waterman
- 1917–1923: Instructor in Physics
- 1923–1930: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1931–1948: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1923–1927: Ross Gunn, Instructor in Engineering
- 1924–1927: William Swann, Director, Sloane Laboratory
- 1925–1928: Ernest Lawrence
- 1925–1927: National Research Fellow
- 1927–1928: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1926–1928: Jesse Beams
- 1926–1927: NRC Fellow in Physics
- 1927–1928: Instructor in Physics
- 1934–1972: Lars Onsager
- 1934–1945: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
- 1945–1972: Gibbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry
- 1939–1942: Lyman Spitzer Jr.
- 1939–1941: Instructor in Physics
- 1941–1942: Instructor in Astronomy and Physics
- 1940–1941: Elliott Montroll, Sterling Research Fellow
- 1943–1944: Arthur Wightman, Instructor in Physics
- 1946–1947: Lyman Spitzer Jr., Associate Professor of Astrophysics
- 1947–1968: Gregory Breit
- 1947–1958: Professor of Physics
- 1958–1968: Donner Professor of Physics
- 1951–1959: John Kirkwood, Sterling Professor of Chemistry
- 1954–2003: Vernon Hughes
- 1954–1969: Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1969–1978: Donner Professor
- 1978–1991: Sterling Professor of Physics
- 1991–2003: Sterling Professor of Physics Emeritus
- 1956–1957: Joel Lebowitz, NSF Research Fellow
- 1957–present: Jack Sandweiss
- 1957–1980: Instructor to Professor of Physics
- 1957–1980: Instructor to Professor of Physics
- 1980–present: Donner Professor of Physics
- 1958–1959: Frank Stillinger, NSF Fellow
- 1959–present: Robert Adair
- 1959–1972: Associate Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1972–1988: Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics
- 1988–1994: Sterling Professor of Physics
- 1994–present: Sterling Professor of Physics, Emeritus
- 1960–2005: D. Allan Bromley
- 1960–1961: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1961–1972: Professor of Physics
- 1972–1993: Henry Ford II Professor of Physics
- 1993–2005: Sterling Professor of the Sciences
- 1994–2000: Dean of Engineering
- 1962–1966: John Reppy, Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1962–1974: Willis Lamb Jr.
- 1962–1972: Henry Ford II Professor of Physics
- 1972–1974: Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics
- 1963–1974: Gerald Clemence
- 1963–1966: Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
- 1966–1974: Professor of Astronomy
- 1964–1988: Ira Bernstein, Professor of Applied Physics
- 1966–1967: Robert Birgeneau, Instructor in Engineering and Applied Science
- 1966–1967: Russell Kulsrud, Professor of Applied Science and Astronomy
- 1966–1976: George Schulz, Professor of Applied Sciences
- 1967–2009: Martin Klein
- 1967–1973: Professor of Physics
- 1973–2000: Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and History of Science
- 2000–2009: Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Physics and History of Science
- 1970–1972: Patrick Lee, J. W. Gibbs Instructor of Physics
- 1972–1974: Roy Holt, Research Staff Physicist
- 1972–1976: James Bardeen
- 1972–1974: Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- 1974–1976: Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- 1978–present: Francesco Iachello
- 1978–2005: Professor of Physics
- 2005–present: J. W. Gibbs Professor of Physics and Chemistry
- 1979–1980: David Thouless, Professor of Applied Science
- 1985–1989: Jainendra Jain, Research Associate
- 1988–present: Nicholas Read
- 1988–1995: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
- 1995–present: Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
- 1994–present: Ira Bernstein
- 1994–2004: Carl A. Morse Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics
- 2004–present: Carl A. Morse Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics
- 1995–2003: Pierre Hohenberg, Deputy Provost for Science and Technology
- 1995–present: Richard Casten
- 1995–2008: Professor of Physics
- 2008–present: D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics
- 1999–2010: Benoît Mandelbrot
- 1999–2004: Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences
- 2005–2010: Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences
- 2001–present: Paul Fleury
- 2001–2007: Dean, School of Engineering
- 2001–present: Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Engineering and Applied Physics
- 2002–present: Steven Girvin
- 2002–2005: Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
- 2005–present: Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
- 2007–present: Deputy Provost for Science and Technology
PhDs
- 1894: Arthur Day
- 1909: Albert Hull
- 1925: Ernest Lawrence
- 1926: Ross Gunn
- 1935: Lars Onsager
- 1940: Irving Segal
- 1942: Raymond Davis Jr.
- 1948: William Fairbank Sr.
- 1950: Gerald Brown
- 1954: John Schiffer
- 1958: Frank Stillinger
- 1959: David Lee
- 1961: Robert Meservey
- 1961: John Reppy
- 1962: Richard Casten
- 1966: Robert Birgeneau
- 1971: Howard Georgi
- 1972: Roy Holt
- 1981: Julia Phillips
