50 faculty and 0 courses in Physics at Stanford University.
- Roger Blandford, Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics h-index 143
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Notable: “Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes” (1977) · 5,071 citations
- Peter Michelson, Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences h-index 123
Notable: “The Third EGRET Catalog of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources” · 1,672 citations
- Zhi-Xun Shen, Paul Pigott Professor of Physical Sciences, Professor of Applied Physics, of Physics and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy h-index 117
Notable: “Angle-resolved photoemission studies of the cuprate superconductors” (2003) · 3,765 citations
- Persis S. Drell, Provost, Emerita, James and Anna Marie Spilker Professor, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Physics h-index 114
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Notable: “THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THEFERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPEMISSION” (2009) · 4,122 citations
- Steven Chu, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and of Energy Science and Engineering h-index 113
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Notable: “Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future” (2012) · 12,235 citations
- Risa Wechsler, Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Humanities and Sciences Professor and Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics h-index 105
Es on understanding the evolution of galaxies, the large-scale structure of the universe, and the nature of dark matter and dark energy. She uses large numerical simulations, theoretical models, and the largest observed maps of the universe
Notable: “CANDELS: THE COSMIC ASSEMBLY NEAR-INFRARED DEEP EXTRAGALACTIC LEGACY SURVEY” (2011) · 2,175 citations
- Steven Kivelson, Prabhu Goel Family Professor h-index 100
How do the interactions between the vastly many electrons in solids produce the emergent phenomena we recognize as the macroscopic behavior of the materials we encounter in everyday life, and in the exotic materials and devices we engineer
Notable: “Solitons in conducting polymers” (1988) · 3,811 citations
- Roger Romani, Professor of Physics h-index 96
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Notable: “FIRST-YEAR SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY-II SUPERNOVA RESULTS: HUBBLE DIAGRAM AND COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS” (2009) · 707 citations
- Steven Allen, Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics h-index 95
Notable: “HIRES: the high-resolution echelle spectrometer on the Keck 10-m Telescope” (1994) · 1,638 citations
- Kent Irwin, Director, Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL), Professor of Physics, of Particle Physics and Astrophysics and of Photon Science h-index 87
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Notable: “Review of Particle Physics” (2018) · 7,219 citations
- Aharon Kapitulnik, Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics h-index 84
Es on experimental condensed matter physics, while opportunistically, also apply his methods to tabletop experimental studies of fundamental phenomena in physics. His recent studies cover a broad spectrum of phenomena associated with the be
Notable: “How to detect fluctuating stripes in the high-temperature superconductors” (2003) · 1,384 citations
- Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch Professor of Physics h-index 79
String theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the facul
Notable: “The world as a hologram” (1995) · 4,010 citations
- Philip Bucksbaum, Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science and Professor of Photon Science, of Applied Physics and of Physics h-index 77
Notable: “First lasing and operation of an ångstrom-wavelength free-electron laser” (2010) · 3,132 citations
- Savas Dimopoulos, Hamamoto Family Professor h-index 72
Notable: “The hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter” (1998) · 6,572 citations
- Vahe Petrosian, Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics h-index 66
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Notable: “Surface brightness and evolution of galaxies” (1976) · 507 citations
- Tom Abel, Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics and of Physics h-index 65
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Notable: “The Formation of the First Star in the Universe” (2002) · 1,446 citations
- Mark Kasevich, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics h-index 63
Notable: “Atomic interferometry using stimulated Raman transitions” (1991) · 1,343 citations
- Leo Hollberg, Professor (Research) of Physics and of Geophysics h-index 61
Notable: “Observation of Squeezed States Generated by Four-Wave Mixing in an Optical Cavity” (1985) · 1,874 citations
- Xiaoliang Qi, Professor of Physics h-index 56
The interplay of quantum entanglement, quantum gravity and quantum chaos. The characterization of quantum information and quantum entanglement has provided novel understanding to space-time geometry, and relate the dynamics of chaotic ma
Notable: “Inducing a Magnetic Monopole with Topological Surface States” (2009) · 970 citations
- Giorgio Gratta, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor h-index 55
The broad area of the physics of fundamental particles and their interactions. While his career started with experiments at particle colliders, since at Stanford Gratta has tackled the study of neutrinos and gravity at the shortest dista
Notable: “First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Antineutrino Disappearance” (2003) · 2,712 citations
- David Goldhaber-Gordon, TG Wijaya Professor of Physics and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics h-index 55
Notable: “Kondo effect in a single-electron transistor” (1998) · 2,183 citations
- Peter Graham, Professor of Physics h-index 55
Notable: “Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale” (2015) · 662 citations
- J. Hoeksema, Professor (Research) of Physics h-index 52
Notable: “The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) Investigation for the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)” (2011) · 2,480 citations
- Eva Silverstein, Professor of Physics h-index 52
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Notable: “DBI in the sky: Non-Gaussianity from inflation with a speed limit” (2004) · 1,061 citations
- Stephen Shenker, Richard Herschel Weiland Professor h-index 50
Notable: “Mtheory as a matrix model: A conjecture” (1997) · 2,798 citations
- Kathryn Moler, Special Advisor to the President, Marvin Chodorow Professor and Professor of Applied Physics, of Physics and of Energy Science Engineering h-index 49
Notable: “Direct imaging of the coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface” (2011) · 893 citations
- Lauren Tompkins, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 48
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Notable: “A Common Tracking Software Project” (2022) · 80 citations
- Robert Laughlin, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences h-index 42
Notable: “Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect: An Incompressible Quantum Fluid with Fractionally Charged Excitations” (1983) · 5,744 citations
- Benjamin Lev, Stanford Fortitude Professor h-index 38
Es on exploring quantum many-body physics, including quantum neural networks, using techniques at the interface of ultracold atomic physics, quantum optics, and condensed matter physics.
Notable: “Strongly Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate of Dysprosium” (2011) · 820 citations
- Blas Cabrera, Stanley G. Wojcicki Professor, Emeritus h-index 36
Notable: “Results from a Low-Energy Analysis of the CDMS II Germanium Data” (2011) · 518 citations
- Patrick Hayden, Stanford Professor of Quantum Physics h-index 36
Notable: “Black holes as mirrors: quantum information in random subsystems” (2007) · 1,367 citations
- Chao-Lin Kuo, Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics h-index 36
Notable: “Improved Constraints on Cosmology and Foregrounds from BICEP2 and Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Data with Inclusion of 95 GHz Band” (2016) · 673 citations
- Srinivas Raghu, Professor of Physics h-index 35
Notable: “Possible Realization of Directional Optical Waveguides in Photonic Crystals with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry” (2008) · 2,786 citations
- Oliver Philcox, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 30
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Notable: “BOSS DR12 full-shape cosmology: ΛCDM constraints from the large-scale galaxy power spectrum and bispectrum monopole” (2022) · 264 citations
- Douglas Stanford, Professor of Physics h-index 29
Notable: “A bound on chaos” (2016) · 2,367 citations
- Jeongwan Haah, Associate Professor of Physics and, by courtesy, of Mathematics h-index 29
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Notable: “Operator Spreading in Random Unitary Circuits” (2018) · 737 citations
- Patricia Burchat, Gabilan Professor h-index 29
Focus on fundamental questions in physics: What is the Universe made of? What are the laws of physics that govern the constituents of the Universe? She is interested in studying the Universe at both the smallest and the largest scales. She
Notable: “Weighing the giants – IV. Cosmology and neutrino mass” (2014) · 303 citations
- Hari Manoharan, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 28
Notable: “Activating and optimizing MoS2 basal planes for hydrogen evolution through the formation of strained sulphur vacancies” (2015) · 2,501 citations
- Jason Hogan, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 28
Notable: “Quantum superposition at the half-metre scale” (2015) · 399 citations
- Trithep Devakul, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 28
Es on emergent quantum phases of matter, particularly those arising from the interplay of topology with electronic interactions and correlations in two-dimensional materials.
Notable: “Quantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands” (2021) · 555 citations
- Monika Schleier-Smith, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 27
Notable: “Implementation of Cavity Squeezing of a Collective Atomic Spin” (2010) · 538 citations
- Susan E. Clark, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 27
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Notable: “Probing cosmic inflation with theLiteBIRDcosmic microwave background polarization survey” (2022) · 327 citations
- Vedika Khemani, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 23
Notable: “Phase Structure of Driven Quantum Systems” (2016) · 942 citations
- Alfred Zong, Assistant Professor of Physics and Applied Physics h-index 22
Notable: “Light-induced charge density wave in LaTe3” (2020) · 223 citations
- Ben Feldman, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 21
Notable: “Landau quantization and quasiparticle interference in the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3As2” (2014) · 490 citations
- Ken Van Tilburg, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 16
Notable: “Identifying boosted objects with N-subjettiness” (2011) · 877 citations
- Geoffrey Penington, Professor of Physics h-index 4
Notable: “Entanglement wedge reconstruction and the information paradox” (2020) · 994 citations
- Jon Simon, Joan Reinhart Professor and Professor of Applied Physics h-index 3
Notable: “Resonant Andreev reflections probed by photon-assisted tunnelling at the atomic scale” (2020) · 40 citations
- Sasha Philippov, Associate Professor of Physics
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- Tom Hartman, 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.