35 faculty and 40 courses in Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Laura Cadonati, Professor h-index 108
Notable: “Advanced LIGO” (2015) · 3,397 citations
- Uzi Landman, Professor h-index 102
Notable: “Nanotribology: friction, wear and lubrication at the atomic scale” (1995) · 1,602 citations
- Ignacio Taboada, Professor h-index 86
Notable: “Extended gamma-ray sources around pulsars constrain the origin of the positron flux at Earth” (2017) · 517 citations
- Walter de Heer, Professor h-index 78
Notable: “Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications” (2002) · 10,208 citations
- A. Nepomuk Otte, Professor h-index 69
Notable: “Variable Very High Energy γ‐Ray Emission from Markarian 501” (2007) · 552 citations
- Mei-Yin Chou, Professor h-index 63
Notable: “Electronic Shell Structure and Abundances of Sodium Clusters” (1984) · 2,395 citations
- Claire Berger, Professor h-index 61
Notable: “Electronic Confinement and Coherence in Patterned Epitaxial Graphene” (2006) · 5,516 citations
- Daniel Goldman, Professor h-index 56
Notable: “A Terradynamics of Legged Locomotion on Granular Media” (2013) · 458 citations
- Dimitrios Psaltis, Professor h-index 55
Notable: “Thermonuclear (Type I) X‐Ray Bursts Observed by theRossi X‐Ray Timing Explorer” (2008) · 744 citations
- Feryal Özel, Professor h-index 54
Notable: “Astrophysical measurement of the equation of state of neutron star matter” (2010) · 404 citations
- Rick Trebino, Professor h-index 52
Notable: “Measuring ultrashort laser pulses in the time-frequency domain using frequency-resolved optical gating” (1997) · 1,472 citations
- Pablo Laguna, Professor h-index 47
Notable: “Testing general relativity with present and future astrophysical observations” (2015) · 1,476 citations
- Andrew Zangwill, Professor h-index 46
Notable: “Density-functional approach to local-field effects in finite systems: Photoabsorption in the rare gases” (1980) · 1,045 citations
- Deirdre Shoemaker, Professor h-index 46
Notable: “Introduction to isolated horizons in numerical relativity” (2003) · 313 citations
- James Gole, Professor h-index 45
Notable: “Enhanced Nitrogen Doping in TiO2 Nanoparticles” (2003) · 1,211 citations
- Thomas Orlando, Professor h-index 44
Notable: “Role of Water in Electron-Initiated Processes and Radical Chemistry: Issues and Scientific Advances” (2004) · 653 citations
- Michael Chapman, Professor h-index 42
Notable: “All-Optical Formation of an Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate” (2001) · 617 citations
- John Wise, Professor h-index 41
Notable: “ENZO: AN ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT CODE FOR ASTROPHYSICS” (2014) · 855 citations
- Predrag Cvitanović, Professor h-index 40
Notable: “Exploring chaotic motion through periodic orbits” (1987) · 522 citations
- Turgay Uzer, Professor h-index 38
Notable: “Theories of intramolecular vibrational energy transfer” (1991) · 423 citations
- Wei Pan, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Exact Quantization of the Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State atν=5/2Landau Level Filling Factor” (1999) · 309 citations
- Martin Mourigal, Professor h-index 29
Notable: “Author Correction: The nature of spin excitations in the one-third magnetization plateau phase of Ba3CoSb2O9” (2018) · 530 citations
- Itamar Kimchi, Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Quantum oscillations from surface Fermi arcs in Weyl and Dirac semimetals” (2014) · 571 citations
- Simon Sponberg, Professor h-index 26
Notable: “Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae” (2002) · 1,880 citations
- Edward Conrad, Professor h-index 25
Notable: “The growth and morphology of epitaxial multilayer graphene” (2008) · 859 citations
- Tamara Bogdanović, Professor h-index 25
Notable: “The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: A multi-messenger view” (2019) · 252 citations
- Michael Pustilnik, Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Dynamic Response of One-Dimensional Interacting Fermions” (2006) · 178 citations
- Dragomir Davidovic, Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Oscillatory Superconducting Transition Temperature in Nb/Gd Multilayers” (1995) · 393 citations
- Chandra Raman, Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Observation of Vortex Lattices in Bose-Einstein Condensates” (2001) · 1,501 citations
- Jennifer Curtis, Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Dynamic holographic optical tweezers” (2002) · 1,518 citations
- Robert Clark, Professor h-index 22
Notable: “Photonuclear Physics when a Multiterawatt Laser Pulse Interacts with Solid Targets” (2000) · 240 citations
- Gongjie Li, Professor h-index 19
Notable: “Growth model interpretation of planet size distribution” (2019) · 574 citations
- Donald C. O'Shea, Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Gray-scale masks for diffractive-optics fabrication: I Commercial slide imagers” (1995) · 155 citations
- JC Gumbart, Professor
- Joshua Weitz, Professor
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.