60 faculty and 0 courses in Physics at University of Chicago.
- Mark Oreglia, Professor Emeritus h-index 148
- John Carlstrom, Professor h-index 91
- Peter Littlewood, Chair, Department of Physics h-index 74
Superconductivity and superfluids, strongly correlated electronic materials, collective dynamics of glasses, density waves in solids, neuroscience, and applications of materials for energy and sustainability. Particular areas of cur
- Dam Son, University Professor h-index 71
- Carlos Wagner, Professor h-index 63
- Margaret Gardel, Professor h-index 62
- Marcela Carena, Professor h-index 60
- Thomas Witten, Professor Emeritus h-index 55
- Michael S. Turner, Professor Emeritus h-index 54
- Kathryn Levin, Professor h-index 53
- Robert Rosner, Professor h-index 52
- LianTao Wang, Professor h-index 51
- Cheng Chin, Professor h-index 50
Es on experimental atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics. Recent works include laser cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation of atoms and molecules, strongly interacting Fermi gas, Feshbach and Efimov states, quantum information science
- David DeMille, Research Professor h-index 48
- Guy Savard, Part-time Professor h-index 43
- Michael Rust, Professor h-index 32
- Andrew Higginbotham, Assistant Professor h-index 24
- Arvind Murugan, Associate Professor h-index 24
- Paolo Privitera, Professor h-index 20
- Henry Frisch, Professor h-index 20
- Stephanie Palmer, Associate Professor h-index 17
- Stuart Gazes, Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Chair h-index 16
- Elizabeth Jerison, Assistant Professor h-index 13
- Zoe Yan, Assistant Professor h-index 10
- Savan Kharel, Associate Instructional Professor h-index 7
- Mohamed Abdelhafez, Associate Instructional Professor h-index 6
- Linda Young, Part-time Professor h-index 1
- Abigail Vieregg, Professor
- Bonnie Fleming, Professor
- Clay Córdova, Associate Professor
- Dahlia Klein, Assistant Professor
- Daniel Holz, Professor
- David Awschalom, Professor
- David Kutasov, Professor
Recent years was on a number of questions in field and string theory. One is the dynamics of strongly coupled field theories such as Quantum Chromodynamics, and in particular qualitative phenomena such as confinement and chiral symmetry
- David Miller, Professor
Es on answering open questions about the fundamental structure of matter. By studying the quarks and gluons -—the particles that comprise everyday protons and neutrons —produced in the energetic collisions of protons at the Larg
- David Schmitz, Professor
- Edward Blucher, Professor
- Heinrich Jaeger, Professor
- Jeffrey Harvey, Professor
- Juan Collar, Professor
- Karri DiPetrillo, Assistant Professor
- Keisuke Harigaya, Assistant Professor
- Luca Delacrétaz, Assistant Professor
- Luca Grandi, Professor
- Melvyn Shochet, Professor Emeritus
- Michael Levin, Professor
- Pavel Wiegmann, Professor
- Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, Professor
- Robert Hunt, Assistant Professor
- Robert Wald, Professor
- Savdeep Sethi, Professor
Like mathematics, occasionally computer science and information theory. Filter by: Reset Filters Role Faculty Staff Graduate Students Research Scientists Postdocs Visiting Faculty Incoming Graduate Students Emeriti Faculty Past Chairs Resea
- Scott Wakely, Professor
- Sidney Nagel, Professor
- Vincenzo Vitelli, Professor
- Wendy Zhang, Associate Professor
- William Irvine, Professor
- Woowon Kang, Professor
- Yau Wah, Professor
- Young-Kee Kim, Professor
Has been understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles (the Higgs mechanism), one of the central questions in physics. Prof. Kim’s research group has led precise measurements of both the W and top-quark masses (predicting
- Zosia Krusberg, Director of Graduate Studies and Senior Instructional Professor
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