17 faculty and 40 courses in Physics at Carleton College.
- Nelson Christensen, George H. and Marjorie F. Dixon Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 118
Notable: “An Ordinary Short Gamma-Ray Burst with Extraordinary Implications: Fermi-GBM Detection of GRB 170817A” (2017) · 1,516 citations
- Joel Weisberg, Herman and Gertrude Mosier Stark Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Emeritus h-index 34
Notable: “Further experimental tests of relativistic gravity using the binary pulsar PSR 1913 + 16” (1989) · 859 citations
- Jay Tasson, Associate Professor of Physics, Chair h-index 28
Notable: “Matter-gravity couplings and Lorentz violation” (2011) · 336 citations
- Ryan Terrien, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy h-index 24
Notable: “HABITABLE ZONES AROUND MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS: NEW ESTIMATES” (2013) · 1,626 citations
- Arjendu Pattanayak, Professor of Physics h-index 16
Notable: “Gaussian wave-packet dynamics: Semiquantal and semiclassical phase-space formalism” (1994) · 94 citations
- Andreia Carrillo, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy h-index 11
Notable: “A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf” (2020) · 180 citations
- Bruce Thomas, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences, Emeritus h-index 10
Notable: “Metabolic regulation of ?-amylase gene expression in transgenic cell cultures of rice (Oryza sativa L.)” (1993) · 73 citations
- Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Professor of Physics h-index 6
Notable: “Electrostatic Tuning of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions” (2005) · 114 citations
- Barry Costanzi, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 4
Notable: “Emergent 1/f Noise in Ensembles of Random Telegraph Noise Oscillators” (2017) · 19 citations
- Cindy Blaha, George H. and Marjorie F. Dixon Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Emerita h-index 1
Notable: “Results & Successes of eAlliances: A Distributed Peer Mentoring Network Model for Women in Physics & Astronomy” (2024) · 1 citations
- Bill Titus, Professor of Physics, Emeritus
- Chris West, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
Es on astrophysical nucleosynthetic processes and environments, stellar evolution, galactic chemical evolution, and (to a lesser extent) quantum mechanics. He pairs theoretical models with computational simulations to better understand how
- Devin Mahon, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
- Maria Neuzil, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
- Marty Baylor, Professor of Physics
- Rich Noer, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences, Emeritus
- Seth Kimbrell, Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.