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1911–1945: George Pegram
1945–1949: I. I. Rabi
1949–1952: Polykarp Kusch
1952–1955: Charles Townes
1955–1957: Eugene Booth
1957–1960: Henry Foley
1960–1963: Polykarp Kusch
1963–1967: Samuel Devons
1967–1971: Allan Sachs
1971–1973: Henry Foley
1973–1975: Mavlin Ruderman
1975–1976: Robert Serber
1977–1980: Joaquin Luttinger
1980–1983: Gerald Feinberg
1983–1988: Robert Novick
1988–1991: Frank Sciulli
1991–1994: Shoji Nagamiya
1994–1999: Norman Christ
1999–2002: Steven Kahn
2002–2006: Erick Weinberg
2006–2009: Andrew Millis
2009–present: William Zajc

Faculty and Postdocs

1900–1958: George Pegram
- 1900–1902: Assistant in Physics
- 1902–1905: Tutor
- 1905–1909: Instructor
- 1909–1913: Adjunct Professor
- 1913–1916: Associate Professor
- 1916–1958: Professor of Physics
- 1917–1930: Dean, Faculty of Applied Science
- 1937–1949: Dean, Graduate School
- 1949–1950: Vice President
1903–1958: Bergen Davis
- 1903–1907: Tutor
- 1907–1909: Instructor and Ernest Kempton Adams Fellow
- 1909–1913: Adjunct Professor
- 1913–1919: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1919–1939: Professor of Physics
- 1939–1958: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1929–1945: Harold Urey
- 1929–1934: Associate Professor of Chemistry
- 1934–1945: Professor of Chemistry
1929–1988: Isidor Isaac "I. I." Rabi
- 1929–1930: Lecturer in Physics
- 1930–1937: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor Physics
- 1937–1951: Professor of Physics
- 1951–1964: Higgins Professor of Physics
- 1964–1967: University Professor
- 1967–1988: Emeritus University Professor
1932–1987: Raymond Mindlin
- 1932–1938: Assistant in Civil Engineering
- 1938–1967: Instructor to Professor of Applied Science
- 1967–1975: James Kip Finch Professor of Applied Science
- 1975–1987: Emeritus Professor of Applied Science
1933–1976: John Dunning
- 1933–1935: Instructor in Physics
- 1935–1938: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1938–1946: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1946–1969: Professor of Physics
- 1950–1969: Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
- 1969–1976: Thayer Lindsey Professor of Applied Science
1934–1935: Robert Bacher, Instructor in Physics
1937–1944: Polykarp Kusch
- 1937–1941: Instructor in Physics
- 1942–1944: Scientist, Division of War Research
1937–1959: Eugene Booth
- 1937–1941: Lecturer in Physics
- 1941–1946: Physicist, Division of War Research
- 1946–1947: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1947–1949: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1949–1959: Professor of Physics
1938–1952: Willis Lamb Jr.
- 1938–1943: Instructor in Physics
- 1943–1945: Associate in Physics
- 1945–1947: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1947–1948: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1948–1952: Professor of Physics
1939–1942: Leo Szilard
- 1939–1942: Unofficial Researcher
- 1942–1942: Researcher, Division of War Research
1939–1944: Enrico Fermi, Professor of Physics
1939–1945: Joseph Mayer, Associate Professor
1939–1946: Maria Goeppert Mayer, No official title
1940–1942: Herbert Anderson, Assistant in Nuclear Chain Reaction Research
1941–1942: Edward Teller, Researcher
1941–1950: Chaim Pekeris
- 1941–1945: Researcher, Hudson Laboratories, Division of War Research
- 1945–1950: Director, Mathematical Physics Group
1942–1944: Lyman Spitzer Jr., Scientist, Special Studies Group, Division of War Research
1942–1945: Henry Primakoff, Physicist, Division of War Research
1942–1947: Norman Ramsey
- 1942–1945: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1945–1947: Associate Professor of Physics
1944–1997: Chien-Shiung Wu
- 1944–1946: Scientist, Division of War Research
- 1946–1952: Research Associate
- 1952–1957: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1958–1972: Professor of Physics
- 1972–1981: Michael I. Pupin Professor of Physics
- 1981–1997: Michael I. Pupin Professor Emeritus of Physics
1946–1948: William Nierenberg, Instructor in Physics
1946–1968: Llewellyn Thomas, Professor of Physics
1946–1972: Polykarp Kusch
- 1946–1949: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1949–1972: Professor of Physics
1946–1982: Henry Foley
- 1946–1947: Associate in Physics
- 1948–1954: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1954–1982: Professor of Physics
1946–1986: L. James Rainwater
- 1946–1952: Instructor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1952–1986: Professor of Physics
- 1986–1986: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1947–1950: Harold Brown, Lecturer and Research Assistant
1948–1961: Charles Townes
- 1948–1950: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1950–1961: Professor of Physics
1949–1950: Francis Low, Instructor in Physics
1949–1951: Arthur Schawlow, Fellow and Research Associate
1949–1952: Harvey Fletcher, Professor of Electrical Engineering
1949–1952: Vernon Hughes, Lecturer in Physics
1949–1955: Frank Press, Instructor to Associate Professor of Geophysics
1949–1962: Norman Kroll, Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
1949–1989: Allan Sachs
- 1949–1950: Instructor in Physics
- 1950–1951: Associate in Physics
- 1951–1960: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1960–1989: Professor of Physics
1950–1953: Gerson Goldhaber, Instructor
1950–1971: Jack Steinberger
- 1950–1952: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1952–1955: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1955–1964: Professor of Physics
- 1964–1971: Professor of Physics
1951–1963: Robert Frosch
- 1951–1953: Research Scientist, Theoretical Division, Hudson Laboratories
- 1953–1963: Associate Director to Director, Hudson Laboratories
1951–1979: Leon Lederman
- 1951–1952: Research Associate
- 1952–1958: Assistant to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1958–1972: Professor of Physics
- 1972–1979: Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics
1951–1997: Robert Serber
- 1951–1977: Professor of Physics
- 1977–1997: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1952–1953: Felix Boehm, Boese Fellow
1952–1953: Malvin Ruderman, NSF Fellow
1952–1954: Ernest Henley, Jewett Fellow and Lecturer
1952–1956: Robert Kraichnan, Research Associate, Electronics Research Laboratory
1953–1960: Tsung-Dao Lee
- 1953–1955: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1955–1956: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1956–1960: Professor of Physics
1954–1954: Robert Balluffi, Research Associate
1954–1955: Toichiro Kinoshita, Fellow in Theoretical Physics
1954–1957: Robert Novick
- 1954–1957: Research Associate
- 1955–1957: Adjunct Assistant Professor
1954–1959: Ali Javan, Research Associate in Physics
1954–1969: Léon Brillouin, Adjunct Professor of Physics
1956–1959: Nicholas Samios, Instructor in Physics
1957–1958: Stanley Mandelstam, Boese Fellow
1957–1959: Steven Weinberg, Instructor in Physics
1958–1960: Eugene Commins, Instructor in Physics
1958–1964: Herman Cummins, Research Assistant to Research Physicist
1958–1966: Melvin Schwartz
- 1958–1960: Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1960–1963: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1963–1966: Professor of Physics
1959–1992: Gerald "Gary" Feinberg
- 1959–1965: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1965–1992: Professor of Physics
1959–2003: Richard Bersohn
- 1959–1962: Associate Professor of Chemistry
- 1962–1986: Professor of Chemistry
- 1986–2003: Higgins Professor of Natural Science
1960–1993: Robert Novick
- 1960–1962: Associate Professor of Physics
- 1962–1993: Professor of Physics
- 1962–1993: Professor Emeritus of Physics
1960–1993: Joaquin "Quin" Luttinger, Professor of Physics
1960–2006: Samuel Devons
- 1960–1984: Professor of Physics
- 1985–2006: Professor Emeritus
1963–present: Tsung-Dao Lee
- 1963–1964: Professor of Physics
- 1964–1984: Enrico Fermi Professor of Physics
- 1984–present: University Professor
1964–1967: Samuel Ting
- 1964–1965: Instructor in Physics
- 1965–1967: Assistant Professor of Physics
1964–1980: William Happer
- 1964–1965: Research Physicist
- 1965–1980: Instructor to Professor, Radiation Laboratory
1965–1992: Gian Wick
- 1965–1977: Professor of Physics
- 1977–1992: Emeritus Professor of Physics
1966–1969: John Peoples Jr., Assistant Professor of Physics
1967–1973: David Nygren
- 1967–1969: Research Associate, Nevis Laboratory
- 1969–1973: Associate Professor of Physics
1969–present: Malvin Ruderman
- 1969–1980: Professor of Physics
- 1980–present: Centennial Professor
1974–1979: Alan Guth
- 1974–1977: Research Associate
- 1977–1979: Research Associate II
1974–present: Norman Christ, Professor to Ephraim Gildor Professor of Physics
1975–present: Erick Weinberg
- 1975–1987: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1987–present: Professor of Physics
1980–1982: Robert R. Wilson, Michael Pupin Professor of Physics
1982–1984: Steven Kahn, Assistant Professor of Physics
1982–present: Frank Sciulli
- 1982–2001: Professor of Physics
- 2001–2004: Pupin Professor of Physics
- 2004–present: Pupin Professor of Physics Emeritus
1986–1998: Shoji Nagamiya, Professor of Physics
1994–2006: Melvin Schwartz
- 1994–2000: I.I. Rabi Professor of Physics
- 2000–2006: Professor Emeritus of Physics
1995–2003: Steven Kahn
- 1995–2001: Professor of Physics
- 2001–2003: I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics
1998–present: Horst Störmer
- 1998–2006: Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
- 2006–present: I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics
1998–present: Aron Pinczuk, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
2002–present: Andrew Millis, Professor of Physics
2006–2010: Praveen Chaudhari, Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
2007–present: Boris Altshuler, Professor of Physics

PhDs

1895: Robert Millikan
1901: Bergen Davis
1903: George Pegram
1927: Isidor Isaac "I. I." Rabi
1928: Francis Bitter
1932: Jerrold Zacharias
1933: John Dunning
1934: Walter Zinn
1935: Hendrik Bode
1936: Raymond Mindlin
1939: Julian Schwinger
1940: Herbert Anderson
1940: Sidney Darlington
1940: Norman Ramsey
1946: L. James Rainwater
1947: Arthur Kantrowitz
1947: William Nierenberg
1948: Norman Kroll
1949: Harold Brown
1949: Francis Low
1949: Frank Press
1950: Vernon Hughes
1951: J. Gregory Dash
1951: Leon Lederman
1952: Robert Frosch
1953: Andrew Sessler
1954: Leon Cooper
1954: Val Fitch
1954: Ali Javan
1955: Robert Novick
1955: Martin Perl
1957: Gerald "Gary" Feinberg
1957: Nicholas Samios
1958: Eugene Commins
1958: Melvin Schwartz
1959: James Glimm
1962: Arno Penzias
1963: Herman Cummins
1966: Norman Christ
1966: John Peoples Jr.
1969: John Clauser

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