Physics Faculty

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Graduate Faculty

Jonathan L. Machta, Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, B.S., Michigan, 1975; M.S., Illinois, 1976; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980.

William J. Gerace, Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963; Ph.D., Princeton, 1967.

Guy Blaylock, Associate Professor, B.S., Grinnell, 1978; M.S., Illinois, 1980; Ph.D., 1986.

Donald Candela, Professor, B.A., Harvard, 1978; Ph.D., 1983.

Edward S. Chang, Professor and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences,  B.A., California at Riverside, 1961; M.A., 1964; Ph.D., 1967.

Carlo J. Dallapiccola, Assistant Professor, B.S., Colorado, 1988; Ph.D., 1993.

Anthony D. Dinsmore, Assistant Professor, B.S., Yale, 1992; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1997.

John F. Donoghue, Professor, B.S., Notre Dame, 1972; Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1976.

John F. Dubach, Professor, Chief Information Officer and Special Assistant to the Chancellor, B.S., Santa Clara, 1971; M.S., Stanford, 1973; Ph.D., 1975.

Robert J. Dufresne, Research Associate Professor, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1978; M.S., 1981; Ph.D.,1987.

Eugene Golowich, Professor,  B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1961; Ph.D., Cornell, 1965.

Robert A. Guyer, Professor,  B.S., New Mexico State, 1959; Ph.D., Cornell, 1966.

Robert B. Hallock, Distinguished Professor, B.S., Massachusetts, 1965; M.S., Stanford, 1967; Ph.D., 1969.

Stanley S. Hertzbach, Professor, B.E.S., Johns Hopkins, 1959; Ph.D., 1965.

Barry R. Holstein, Professor,  B.S., Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1965; M.S., 1967; Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon, 1969.

David A. Kastor, Lecturer, S.B., Cornell, 1983; Ph.D., Chicago, 1988.

David Kawall, Assistant Professor, B.S., Toronto, 1989; Ph.D., Stanford, 1996.

Michael N. Kreisler, Professor, A.B., Princeton, 1962; M.S., Stanford, 1963; Ph.D., 1966.

Krishna S. Kumar, Professor, M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, 1984; Ph.D., Syracuse, 1990.

William J. Leonard, Research Associate Professor, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1982; Ph.D., 1988.

Alexander J. Levine, Assistant Professor, B.S., California at Los Angeles, 1989; Ph.D., 1996.

Narayanan Menon, Associate Professor, M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1988; Ph.D., Chicago, 1995.

Jose P. Mestre, Professor, B.S., Massachusetts, 1973; Ph.D., 1979.

Rory A. Miskimen, Professor, B.A., California at Berkeley, 1978; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983.

Francis Pichanick, Professor, B.S., University of Capetown, South Africa, 1957; M.S., 1958; Ph.D., Oxford, England, 1961.

Nikolay Prokofiev, Professor, M.S., Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, 1982; Ph.D., Kurchatov Institute, Russia, 1987 .

Monroe S. Rabin, Professor,  A.B., Columbia, 1961; M.S., Rutgers, 1964; Ph.D., 1967.

Boris V. Svistunov, Associate Professor, M.S., Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, 1983; Ph.D., Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, 1990.

Jennie Traschen, Professor, B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic, 1977; M.S., Harvard, 1981; Ph.D., 1984.

Mark T. Tuominen, Associate Professor, B.S., Minnesota, 1986; Ph.D., 1990.

Stephane Willocq, Associate Professor, B.S., Université Lebre de Bruxelles, 1985; Ph.D., Tufts, 1992.

Po-zen Wong, Professor, B.Sc., Hong Kong, 1974; S.M., Chicago, 1976; Ph.D., 1981.

Adjunct Faculty

David Lawrence, Adjunct Assistant Professor .

Faculty Emeriti

John J. Brehm, Professor Emeritus (1997).

Frederick W. Byron, Jr., Professor Emeritus (2003).

Stanley Engelsberg, Professor Emeritus (2000).

Norman C. Ford, Professor Emeritus (1990).

Ross S. Hicks, Professor Emeritus (2003).

Phillips R. Jones, Professor Emeritus (1996).

Richard R. Kofler, Professor Emeritus (2001).

Robert V. Krotkov, Professor Emeritus (1997).

Kenneth J. Langley, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Alfred H. Mathieson, Jr., Professor Emeritus (1990).

William J. Mullin, Professor Emeritus (2000).

Claude M. Penchina, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Gerald A. Peterson, Professor Emeritus (2000).

Arthur R. Quinton, Professor Emeritus (1996).

Hajime Sakai, Professor Emeritus (1997).

David K. Scott, Professor Emeritus (2003).

Janice Button Shafer, Professor Emerita (1997).

Edward A. Soltysik, Professor Emeritus (1990).

Morton M. Sternheim, Professor Emeritus (1997). 

Arthur R. Swift, Professor Emeritus (2003).

James F. Walker, Professor Emeritus (2003).