60 faculty and 40 courses in Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Janet Conrad, Professor of Physics h-index 157
Notable: “THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THEFERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPEMISSION” (2009) · 4,122 citations
- Long Ju, Lawrence C. Biedenharn Associate Professor of Physics h-index 111
Notable: “Dietary L-Tryptophan Modulates the Structural and Functional Composition of the Intestinal Microbiome in Weaned Piglets” (2018) · 141 citations
- Wolfgang Ketterle, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics, 2001 Nobel Laureate h-index 107
Notable: “Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Gas of Sodium Atoms” (1995) · 5,547 citations
- Erich Ippen, Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 96
Notable: “Theory for displacive excitation of coherent phonons” (1992) · 992 citations
- Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics h-index 93
Notable: “Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices” (2018) · 8,309 citations
- Steven Johnson, Professor of Mathematics and Physics h-index 90
Notable: “The Design and Implementation of FFTW3” (2005) · 5,157 citations
- Matthew Evans, Mathworks Professor of Physics h-index 87
Notable: “Quantum-Enhanced Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy” (2019) · 652 citations
- Marc Kastner, Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus h-index 87
Notable: “Kondo effect in a single-electron transistor” (1998) · 2,183 citations
- Gian Michele Innocenti, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 86
Notable: “Effects of visual experience on the maturation of the efferent system to the corpus callosum” (1979) · 251 citations
- Liang Fu, Professor of Physics h-index 85
Notable: “Superconducting Proximity Effect and Majorana Fermions at the Surface of a Topological Insulator” (2008) · 4,887 citations
- Robert Birgeneau, Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 83
Condensed Matter Experiment
Notable: “Doping dependence of the spatially modulated dynamical spin correlations and the superconducting-transition temperature inLa2−xSrxCuO4” (1998) · 904 citations
- Wit Busza, Francis L. Friedman Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 82
Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
Notable: “The PHOBOS perspective on discoveries at RHIC” (2005) · 2,253 citations
- George Benedek, Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Physics and Biological Physics, Emeritus h-index 79
Biophysics
Notable: “Amyloid β-protein (Aβ) assembly: Aβ40 and Aβ42 oligomerize through distinct pathways” (2002) · 1,288 citations
- Daniel Freedman, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Emeritus h-index 73
Notable: “Advanced Quantum Mechanics” (1968) · 2,043 citations
- Mehran Kardar, Francis Friedman Professor of Physics h-index 72
Notable: “Dynamic Scaling of Growing Interfaces” (1986) · 5,443 citations
- Robert Jaffe, Otto and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science h-index 72
Notable: “New extended model of hadrons” (1974) · 2,679 citations
- Jerome Friedman, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, 1990 Nobel Laureate h-index 71
Notable: “Regularization Paths for Cox's Proportional Hazards Model via Coordinate Descent” (2011) · 2,618 citations
- Edward Farhi, Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 68
Notable: “A Quantum Adiabatic Evolution Algorithm Applied to Random Instances of an NP-Complete Problem” (2001) · 2,095 citations
- Isaac Chuang, Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics h-index 67
Notable: “Quantum Computation and Quantum Information” (2002) · 22,734 citations
- Min Chen, Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 62
Notable: “Fabrication and application of inorganic hollow spheres” (2011) · 810 citations
- Deepto Chakrabarty, William A. M. Burden Professor in Astrophysics, Department Head h-index 60
Notable: “THENUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC TELESCOPE ARRAY(NuSTAR) HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY MISSION” (2013) · 2,268 citations
- Anna Frebel, Professor of Physics, Division Head for Astrophysics h-index 58
Notable: “Nucleosynthetic signatures of the first stars” (2005) · 565 citations
- Erin Kara, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 56
Notable: “The quiescent intracluster medium in the core of the Perseus cluster” (2016) · 489 citations
- Philip Harris, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 55
Notable: “Measurement of the Polarization of W Bosons with Large Transverse Momenta in W+jets Events at the LHC” (2011) · 18 citations
- Mikhail Ivanov, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 53
Notable: “Exclusive semileptonic and nonleptonic decays of theBcmeson” (2006) · 238 citations
- William Detmold, Professor of Physics, Graduate Program Faculty Coordinator h-index 53
Notable: “Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the Electron-Ion Collider” (2022) · 870 citations
- Riccardo Comin, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 52
Notable: “Low trap-state density and long carrier diffusion in organolead trihalide perovskite single crystals” (2015) · 5,067 citations
- William Bertozzi, Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 52
Nuclear Physics Experiment
Notable: “GEp/GMpRatio by Polarization Transfer ine→p→ep→” (2000) · 729 citations
- Scott Hughes, Professor of Physics, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow h-index 52
Notable: “Using Gravitational‐Wave Standard Sirens” (2005) · 786 citations
- Claude Canizares, Bruno B. Rossi Distinguished Professor of Physics h-index 51
Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Notable: “The Einstein /HEAO 2/ X-ray Observatory” (1979) · 439 citations
- Nuh Gedik, Donner Professor of Physics h-index 50
Notable: “Observation of Floquet-Bloch States on the Surface of a Topological Insulator” (2013) · 1,269 citations
- Or Hen, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 49
Notable: “Measurement of the Neutron Radius ofPb208through Parity Violation in Electron Scattering” (2012) · 566 citations
- Jacqueline Hewitt, Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics h-index 48
Notable: “The Murchison Widefield Array: The Square Kilometre Array Precursor at Low Radio Frequencies” (2013) · 1,271 citations
- A. Nihat Berker, Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 47
Condensed Matter Theory
Notable: “Scaling for first-order phase transitions in thermodynamic and finite systems” (1982) · 494 citations
- Joseph Formaggio, Professor of Physics h-index 45
Notable: “Direct Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Transformation from Neutral-Current Interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory” (2002) · 3,001 citations
- David Kaiser, Professor of Physics, Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science h-index 45
Notable: “Nonperturbative dynamics of reheating after inflation: A review” (2014) · 495 citations
- Paola Cappellaro, Ford Professor of Engineering, Professor of Physics h-index 43
Notable: “Quantum sensing” (2017) · 3,891 citations
- Bruno Coppi, Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 43
Notable: “Dynamics of the Geomagnetic Tail” (1966) · 579 citations
- John Belcher, Class of 1922 Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 42
Within the areas of space plasma physics, in particular the interaction of the heliosphere with the local interstellar medium. Research Areas Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Notable: “Large-amplitude Alfvén waves in the interplanetary medium, 2” (1971) · 1,914 citations
- Anna-Christina Eilers, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 41
Notable: “Little Red Dots: An Abundant Population of Faint Active Galactic Nuclei at z ∼ 5 Revealed by the EIGER and FRESCO JWST Surveys” (2024) · 471 citations
- Aram Harrow, Professor of Physics h-index 40
Notable: “Quantum Algorithm for Linear Systems of Equations” (2009) · 3,292 citations
- Edmund Bertschinger, Professor of Physics h-index 40
Astrophysics Theory
Notable: “Self-similar secondary infall and accretion in an Einstein-de Sitter universe” (1985) · 888 citations
- Soonwon Choi, Victor F. Weisskopf Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 39
Notable: “Probing many-body dynamics on a 51-atom quantum simulator” (2017) · 2,508 citations
- Alan Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics h-index 38
Notable: “Inflationary universe: A possible solution to the horizon and flatness problems” (1981) · 9,916 citations
- Joseph Checkelsky, Professor of Physics h-index 38
Notable: “A tunable topological insulator in the spin helical Dirac transport regime” (2009) · 1,987 citations
- Ore Gottlieb, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 36
Notable: “Superluminal motion of a relativistic jet in the neutron-star merger GW170817” (2018) · 604 citations
- Paul Joss, Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 33
Notable: “Presupernova evolution in massive interacting binaries” (1992) · 767 citations
- Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, Thomas A. Frank Associate Professor of Physics h-index 33
Notable: “Unexpectedly large charge radii of neutron-rich calcium isotopes” (2016) · 364 citations
- Raymond Ashoori, Professor of Physics, Division Head h-index 32
Condensed Matter Experiment
Notable: “Massive Dirac Fermions and Hofstadter Butterfly in a van der Waals Heterostructure” (2013) · 1,693 citations
- Richard Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 32
Notable: “Low-field transport coefficients in GaAs/Ga1−xAlxAs heterostructures” (1989) · 321 citations
- Thomas Greytak, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 31
Notable: “Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atomic Hydrogen” (1998) · 739 citations
- Kevin Burdge, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 28
Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Notable: “The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive” (2018) · 1,191 citations
- Jeffrey Goldstone, Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 26
Notable: “A Quantum Adiabatic Evolution Algorithm Applied to Random Instances of an NP-Complete Problem” (2001) · 2,095 citations
- Daniel Harlow, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 26
Notable: “Bulk locality and quantum error correction in AdS/CFT” (2015) · 787 citations
- Netta Engelhardt, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 20
Notable: “Quantum extremal surfaces: holographic entanglement entropy beyond the classical regime” (2015) · 865 citations
- Nikta Fakhri, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 16
Notable: “Broken detailed balance at mesoscopic scales in active biological systems” (2016) · 361 citations
- Peter Fisher, Thomas A. Frank Professor of Physics, Head of Office of Computing and Data h-index 8
Notable: “What is Homeopathy An Introduction” (2012) · 81 citations
- Jeff Gore, Professor of Physics h-index 3
Notable: “Bias and error in estimates of equilibrium free-energy differences from nonequilibrium measurements” (2003) · 339 citations
- Arup Chakraborty, John M. Deutch Institute Professor h-index 1
Notable: “Comprehensive analysis of the B 0 → K * 0 μ + μ − decay” (2026) · 3 citations
- Zhurun Judy Ji, 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.