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On its early history, see Judith R. Goostein, Millikan's School: A History of the California Institute of Technology (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991).
Faculty and Postdocs
- 1917–1946: Harry Bateman, Professor of Mathematics Physics and Aeronautics
- 1921–1953: Robert Millikan
- 1921–1945: Chair, Executive Council
- 1945–1953: Emeritus Professor of Physics
- 1921–1966: Paul Epstein
- 1921–1953: Professor of Mathematical Physics
- 1953–1966: Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics
- 1922–1948: Richard Tolman
- 1922–1948: Professor of Physical Chemistry and Mathematical Physics
- 1935–1946: Dean, Graduate School
- 1925–1927: Carl Eckart, National Research Fellow
- 1925–1946: William Houston
- 1925–1927: National Research Fellow
- 1927–1929: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1929–1931: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1931–1946: Professor of Physics
- 1926–1928: Lee DuBridge, NRC Fellow
- 1927–1929: Oscar Rice, NRC Fellow
- 1927–1931: Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson
- 1927–1929: Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- 1929–1931: Assistant Professor of Mathematical Physics
- 1927–1947: J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 1927–1928: NRC Fellow
- 1929–1931: Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1931–1936: Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1936–1947: Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1928–1930: Francis Bitter, National Research Fellow
- 1928–1949: Theodore von Kármán
- 1928–1930: Research Associate
- 1930–1949: Director, Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories
- 1938–1945: Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- 1928–1966: Clark Millikan
- 1928–1934: Assistant Professor of Aeronautics
- 1934–1940: Associate Professor of Aeronautics
- 1940–1966: Professor of Aeronautics
- 1929–1976: Jesse DuMond
- 1929–1931: Research Fellow in Physics
- 1931–1938: Research Associate
- 1938–1946: Associate Professor
- 1946–1963: Professor
- 1963–1976: Emeritus Professor
- 1930–1931: Robert Bacher, National Research Fellow in Physics
- 1930–1931: Louis Slichter, Research Associate
- 1930–1968: Charles Lauritsen
- 1930–1931: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1931–1935: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1935–1962: Professor of Physics
- 1962–1968: Emeritus Professor of Physics
- 1930–1991: Carl Anderson
- 1930–1933: Research Fellow
- 1933–1939: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1939–1976: Professor of Physics
- 1977–1991: Emeritus Professor of Physics
- 1932–1934: Wendell Furry, National Research Fellow
- 1933–1935: Pol Duwez, Research Fellow
- 1934–1935: H. Richard Crane, Research Fellow in Physics
- 1934–1936: Tom Bonner, National Research Fellow
- 1935–1941: Seth Neddermeyer, Research Fellow in Physics
- 1936–1941: Walter Elsasser, Assistant in Meteorology
- 1936–1951: Max Mason
- 1936–1938: Vice Chair, Observatory Council
- 1938–1951: Chair, Observatory Council
- 1936–1995: William A. Fowler
- 1936–1939: Research Fellow in Nuclear Physics
- 1939–1942: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1942–1946: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1946–1970: Professor of Physics
- 1970–1982: Institute Professor of Physics
- 1982–1995: Institute Professor of Physics Emeritus
- 1937–1938: Leonard Schiff, NRC Fellow
- 1937–1939: Max Delbrück, Rockefeller Fellow
- 1937–1941: William Sears, Instructor to Assistant Prfoessor
- 1939–2009: Hans Liepmann
- 1939–1944: Aeronautics Fellow
- 1945–1946: Assistant Professor of Aeronautics
- 1946–1949: Associate Professor of Aeronautics
- 1949–1974: Professor of Aeronautics
- 1974–1976: Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Physics
- 1976–1983: Charles Lee Powell Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics
- 1984–1985: Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics
- 1985–2009: Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics Emeritus
- 1941–1942: Walter Gordy, National Research Fellow in Physics
- 1941–1978: Pol Duwez
- 1941–1947: Research Engineer
- 1947–1952: Associate Professor of Materials Science
- 1952–1978: Professor of Materials Science
- 1952–1978: Emeritus Professor of Materials Science
- 1942–1945: Wolfgang "Pief" Panofsky, Director, OSRD Research Project
- 1942–1973: Thomas Lauritsen
- 1942–1945: Research Associate
- 1946–1946: Senior Fellow
- 1946–1950: Assistant Professor
- 1950–1955: Associate Professor
- 1955–1973: Professor
- 1943–1945: Chia-Chiao Lin, Research Engineer
- 1945–1981: Max Delbrück
- 1945–1947: Assistant Profesor to Associate Professor
- 1947–1957: Professor
- 1957–1976: Albert Billings Ruddock Professor
- 1976–1981: Emeritus Professor
- 1946–1994: Lee DuBridge
- 1946–1969: President
- 1969–1994: President Emeritus
- 1946–2012: Robert Christy
- 1946–1986: Assistant Professor to Professor
- 1970–1980: Vice President and Provost
- 1977–1978: Acting President
- 1986–2012: Emeritus Professor of Physics
- 1947–1951: John Kirkwood, Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry
- 1947–1961: Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson, Professor of Mathematical Physics
- 1947–1997: Robert Leighton
- 1947–1949: Research Fellow
- 1949–1985: Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1985–1986: William L. Valentine Professor of Physics
- 1986–1997: Emeritus Professor of Physics
- 1949–2004: Robert Bacher
- 1949–1976: Professor of Physics
- 1962–1970: Provost
- 1976–2004: Emeritus Professor of Physics
- 1950–1977: Alvin Tollestrup
- 1950–1953: Research Fellow in Physics
- 1953–1977: Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1951–1952: Roy Glauber, Lecturer in Theoretical Physics
- 1951–1952: Roy Gould, Research Engineer, Missile Guidance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- 1951–1968: Julian Cole
- 1951–1963: Assistant Professor to Professor of Aeronautics
- 1963–1968: Professor of Applied Mechanics
- 1951–1988: Richard Feynman, Tolman Professor of Physics
- 1952–present: Anatol Roshko
- 1952–1955: Research Fellow
- 1955–1985: Assistant Professor to Professor
- 1985–1994: Theordore Von Karmen Professor
- 1994–present: Theordore Von Karmen Professor of Aeronautics Emeritus
- 1952–present: Theodore Yao-Tsu Wu
- 1952–1955: Research Fellow in Applied Mechanics
- 1955–1957: Assistant Professor of Applied Mechanics
- 1957–1961: Associate Professor of Applied Mechanics
- 1961–1966: Professor of Applied Mechanics
- 1966–1996: Professor of Engineering Science
- 1996–present: Professor Emeritus of Engineering Science
- 1953–1958: Frank Spitzer
- 1953–1955: Instructor in Mathematics
- 1955–1958: Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- 1953–present: Felix Boehm
- 1953–1957: Research Fellow in Physics
- 1958–1960: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1961–1984: Professor of Physics
- 1985–1995: William L. Valentine Professor of Physics
- 1995–present: William L. Valentine Emeritus Professor of Physics
- 1954–1958: William Willmarth, Research Fellow to Senior Research Fellow in Aeronautical Engineering
- 1955–1956: George Trilling, Research Fellow in Physics
- 1955–1965: Frank Press, Professor of Geophysics
- 1955–1970: Robert Hellwarth
- 1955–1965: Lecturer
- 1966–1970: Senior Research Fellow
- 1955–1993: Murray Gell-Mann
- 1955–1956: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1956–1967: Professor of Physics
- 1967–1993: Robert A. Millikan Professor, Lauritesen Laboratory for High Energy Physics
- 1955–present: Roy Gould
- 1955–1960: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1960–1974: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics
- 1974–1980: Professor of Applied Physics
- 1980–1996: Simon Ramo Professor, Division of Engineering and Applied Science
- 1996–present: Simon Ramo Professor Emeritus, Division of Engineering and Applied Science
- 1960–1961: Sheldon Glashow, Research Fellow in Physics
- 1962–1963: Robert W. Wilson, Research Associate
- 1962–1970: John Bahcall
- 1962–1963: Research Fellow in Physics
- 1963–1965: Senior Research Fellow in Physics
- 1965–1970: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1963–present: Barry Barish
- 1963–1966: Research Fellow
- 1966–1969: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1969–1972: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1972–1991: Professor of Physics
- 1991–2005: Linde Professor of Physics
- 2005–present: Linde Professor of Physics Emeritus
- 1964–1969: Roger Dashen
- 1964–1965: Research Associate in Theoretical Physics
- 1965–1966: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1966–1969: Professor of Physics
- 1964–1983: George Zweig, Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1964–present: Amnon Yariv
- 1964–1966: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1966–1982: Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1982–1996: Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1996–present: Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
- 1965–1965: James Bardeen, Research Fellow
- 1966–1970: Charles Prescott, Research Associate in Physics, Synchrotron Laboratory
- 1966–1973: Chang Tsuei
- 1966–1969: Research Fellow
- 1969–1973: Senior Research Fellow
- 1966–1982: Frank Sciulli
- 1966–1968: Research Fellow
- 1969–1977: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
- 1977–1982: Professor of Physics
- 1966–present: Kip Thorne
- 1966–1967: Research Fellow in Physics
- 1967–1970: Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1970–1981: Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1981–1991: William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1991–2009: Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 2009–present: Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus
- 1967–1968: Eric Adelberger, Research Fellow
- 1967–1968: J. David Bowman, Research Fellow, Nuclear and Solid State Physics
- 1969–1971: Mark Kryder, NSF Research Fellow
- 1969–1972: Piermaria Oddone, Research Fellow in Physics
- 1969–1976: Harold Brown, President
- 1970–1971: Christopher McKee, Research Fellow in Astrophysics
- 1970–1989: L. Gary Leal
- 1970–1975: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1975–1978: Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1978–1986: Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1986–1989: Chevron Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1971–1972: Clifford Will, Research Fellow and Instructor in Physics
- 1972–1973: John Holdren, Senior Research Fellow
- 1972–1975: Stanford Woosley, Research Fellow in Physics, Kellogg Radiation Laboratory
- 1972–present: John Schwarz
- 1972–1981: Research Associate
- 1981–1985: Senior Research Associate
- 1985–1989: Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1989–present: Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1973–1974: Saul Teukolsky, Research Associate in Physics
- 1975–2004: Steven Koonin
- 1975–1978: Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1978–1981: Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1981–2004: Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1995–2004: Provost
- 1976–present: H. David Politzer
- 1976–1979: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1979–2004: Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 2004–present: Richard Chase Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 1977–1978: Daniel Freedman, Visiting Associate, Department of Physics
- 1977–1978: Stephen Pope, Research Fellow in Aeronautics
- 1978–1987: Marvin "Murph" Goldberger, President
- 1980–1982: S. James Gates, Jr., Research Fellow
- 1980–1997: John Hopfield, Roscoe Gilkey Dickenson Professor of Chemistry and Biology
- 1980–present: Robert McKeown
- 1980–1992: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
- 1992–present: Professor of Physics
- 1984–present: Mark Wise
- 1984–1992: Assistant Professor to Professor
- 1992–present: John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics
- 1987–present: Thomas Everhart
- 1987–1997: President
- 1997–present: Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus
- 1989–present: H. Jeffrey Kimble
- 1989–1997: Professor of Physics
- 1997–present: Valentine Professor of Physics
- 1993–2010: Andrew Lange
- 1993–1994: Visiting Associate
- 1994–2001: Professor of Physics
- 2001–2010: Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics
- 1994–1996: Victoria Kaspi, Visiting Associate in Astronomy
- 1996–present: James Eisenstein
- 1996–2004: Professor of Physics
- 2004–present: Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
- 1997–1999: Jun Ye, R. A. Millikan Postdoctoral Fellow
- 2005–present: Stanley Deser, Visiting Scientist
PhDs
- 1924: Robert Brode
- 1925: Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson
- 1928: Clark Millikan
- 1929: Jesse DuMond
- 1929: Charles Lauritsen
- 1930: Carl Anderson
- 1932: Seth Neddermeyer
- 1934: H. Richard Crane
- 1936: William A. Fowler
- 1938: William Sears
- 1939: Thomas Lauritsen
- 1939: William McLean
- 1939: Charles Townes
- 1941: H. Guyford Stever
- 1942: Wolfgang "Pief" Panofsky
- 1944: Chia-Chiao Lin
- 1947: Stanley Corrsin
- 1947: Robert Leighton
- 1948: James Fletcher
- 1950: Bernard Cohen
- 1950: Donald Glaser
- 1950: Alvin Tollestrup
- 1951: Berni Alder
- 1951: Eugene Parker
- 1951: Malvin Ruderman
- 1952: Anatol Roshko
- 1952: Theodore Yao-Tsu Wu
- 1954: William Willmarth
- 1955: George Trilling
- 1956: Roy Gould
- 1961: Kenneth Wilson
- 1962: Sidney Coleman
- 1962: Robert W. Wilson
- 1963: George Zweig
- 1964: Roger Dashen
- 1964: James Hartle
- 1965: James Bardeen
- 1966: Charles Prescott
- 1966: Chang Tsuei
- 1967: Eric Adelberger
- 1967: J. David Bowman
- 1967: C. Lewis Cocke
- 1970: Mark Kryder
- 1970: Bruce Winstein
- 1971: David Schramm
- 1971: Clifford Will
- 1973: Saul Teukolsky
- 1981: Ellen Williams
- 1982: Neil Gehrels
- 1987: José Onuchic
