Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

60 faculty and 40 courses in Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Faculty

• Janet Conrad, Professor of Physics h-index 157
• Long Ju, Lawrence C. Biedenharn Associate Professor of Physics h-index 111
• Wolfgang Ketterle, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics, 2001 Nobel Laureate h-index 107
• Steven Johnson, Professor of Mathematics and Physics h-index 90
• Marc Kastner, Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus h-index 87
• Gian Michele Innocenti, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 86
• Wit Busza, Francis L. Friedman Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 82
  Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
• Matthew Evans, Mathworks Professor of Physics h-index 74
• Arup Chakraborty, John M. Deutch Institute Professor h-index 68
• Anna Frebel, Professor of Physics, Division Head for Astrophysics h-index 58
• Philip Harris, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 55
• Or Hen, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 49
• Jacqueline Hewitt, Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics h-index 48
• A. Nihat Berker, Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 47
  Condensed Matter Theory
• David Kaiser, Professor of Physics, Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science h-index 45
• Paola Cappellaro, Ford Professor of Engineering, Professor of Physics h-index 43
• Bruno Coppi, Professor of Physics, Emeritus h-index 43
• Edmund Bertschinger, Professor of Physics h-index 40
  Astrophysics Theory
• Soonwon Choi, Victor F. Weisskopf Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 39
• Joseph Checkelsky, Professor of Physics h-index 38
• Ore Gottlieb, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 36
• Richard Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 32
• Liang Fu, Professor of Physics h-index 28
• Jeff Gore, Professor of Physics h-index 27
• Daniel Harlow, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 26
• Claude Canizares, Bruno B. Rossi Distinguished Professor of Physics h-index 23
  Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
• Netta Engelhardt, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 20
• Nikta Fakhri, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 16
• Peter Fisher, Thomas A. Frank Professor of Physics, Head of Office of Computing and Data h-index 8
• Riccardo Comin, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 1
• Alan Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics
• Anna-Christina Eilers, Assistant Professor of Physics
• Aram Harrow, Professor of Physics
• Daniel Freedman, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Emeritus
• Deepto Chakrabarty, William A. M. Burden Professor in Astrophysics, Department Head
• Edward Farhi, Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Physics, Emeritus
• Erich Ippen, Professor of Physics, Emeritus
• Erin Kara, Associate Professor of Physics
• George Benedek, Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Physics and Biological Physics, Emeritus
  Biophysics
• Isaac Chuang, Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics
• Jeffrey Goldstone, Professor of Physics, Emeritus
• Jerome Friedman, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, 1990 Nobel Laureate
• John Belcher, Class of 1922 Professor of Physics, Emeritus
  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
• Joseph Formaggio, Professor of Physics
• Kevin Burdge, Assistant Professor of Physics
  Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
• Mehran Kardar, Francis Friedman Professor of Physics
• Mikhail Ivanov, Assistant Professor of Physics
• Min Chen, Professor of Physics, Emeritus
• Nuh Gedik, Donner Professor of Physics
• Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics
• Paul Joss, Professor of Physics, Emeritus
• Raymond Ashoori, Professor of Physics, Division Head
  Condensed Matter Experiment
• Robert Birgeneau, Professor of Physics, Emeritus
  Condensed Matter Experiment
• Robert Jaffe, Otto and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science
• Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, Thomas A. Frank Associate Professor of Physics
• Scott Hughes, Professor of Physics, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow
• Thomas Greytak, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, Emeritus
• William Bertozzi, Professor of Physics, Emeritus
  Nuclear Physics Experiment
• William Detmold, Professor of Physics, Graduate Program Faculty Coordinator
• Zhurun Judy Ji, Assistant Professor of Physics

Courses

• Physics I 8.01
• Physics II 8.02
• Physics III 8.03
• Relativity 8.033
• Quantum Physics I 8.04
• Statistical Physics I 8.044
• Quantum Physics II 8.05
• Quantum Physics III 8.06
• Electromagnetism II 8.07
• Statistical Physics II 8.08
• Classical Mechanics III 8.09
• Experimental Physics I 8.13
• Experimental Physics II 8.14
• Data Science in Physics 8.16
• Introduction to Special Relativity 8.20
• Physics of Energy 8.21
• Classical Mechanics II 8.223
• Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity and Astrophysics 8.224
• Forty-three Orders of Magnitude 8.226
• Relativity II 8.228
• Physics of Solids I 8.231
• Introduction to Biological Physics 8.241
• String Theory for Undergraduates 8.251
• Nuclear and Particle Physics 8.276
• Introduction to Particle Accelerators 8.277
• Introduction to Astronomy 8.282[J]
• Modern Astrophysics 8.284
• The Early Universe 8.286
• Exploring Physics Using Python 8.006
• Research Problems in Undergraduate Physics 8.18
• Readings in Physics 8.19
• Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century 8.225[J]
• Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity 8.245[J]
• + 7 more courses

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 2026-07-01.