List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Physics)

This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences, which includes approximately 2,500 living members and 500 foreign associates of the United States National Academy of Sciences, each of whom is affiliated with one of 31 disciplinary sections. Members are listed under their primary subsection and each person's name, primary institution, and election year are given.

Name	Institution	Year
Polykarp Kusch	University of Texas at Dallas	1956
Gerard 't Hooft	Utrecht University	1984
Anatole Abragam	Collège de France	1977
Elihu Abrahams	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	1987
Robert K. Adair	Yale University	1976
Eric Adelberger	University of Washington	1994
Stephen L. Adler	Institute for Advanced Study	1975
Harold Agnew	General Atomics	1979
Yakir Aharonov	University of South Carolina	1993
Guenter Ahlers	University of California, Santa Barbara	1982
Philip Warren Anderson	Princeton University	1967
Arthur Ashkin	Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies	1996
Alain Aspect	Institut d'Optique	2008
Robert Austin	Princeton University	1999
James M. Bardeen	University of Washington	2012
William Bardeen	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	1999
Barry Barish	California Institute of Technology	2002
Gordon Baym	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	1982
George Benedek	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1981
James Bergquist	National Institute of Standards and Technology	2009
Michael Berry	University of Bristol	1995
James Bjorken	Stanford University	1973
Nicolaas Bloembergen	University of Arizona	1960
Felix Boehm	California Institute of Technology	1983
Richard G. Brewer	International Business Machines Corporation	1980
Edouard Brezin	École Normale Supérieure	2003
Keith Brueckner	University of California, San Diego	1969
Philip Bucksbaum	University of Michigan	2004
Claudio (Teitelboim) Bunster	Center for Scientific Studies (Valdivia, Chile)	2005
Curtis Callan	Princeton University	1989
Paul Chaikin	Princeton University	2004
Owen Chamberlain	University of California, Berkeley	1960
Moses H. W. Chan	Pennsylvania State University	2000
Geoffrey Chew	University of California, Berkeley	1962
Steven Chu	University of California, Berkeley	1993
Marvin Cohen	University of California, Berkeley	1980
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji	Collège de France	1994
Eugene Commins	University of California, Berkeley	1987
Susan Coppersmith	University of New South Wales	2009
Eric Allin Cornell	University of Colorado at Boulder	2000
Alan Cottrell	University of Cambridge	1972
Ernest Courant	Brookhaven National Laboratory	1976
Ramanath Cowsik	Washington University in St. Louis	2004
H. Richard Crane	University of Michigan	1966
Edward Creutz	Bishop Museum	1975
Albert Crewe	University of Chicago	1972
James Cronin	University of Chicago	1970
J. C. Seamus Davis	Cornell University	2010
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes	Collège de France	1987
Hans Georg Dehmelt	University of Washington	1978
Stanley Deser	Brandeis University	1994
Mark J. Devlin	University of Pennsylvania	2025
Persis Drell	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	2010
Sidney Drell	Stanford University	1969
Freeman Dyson	Institute for Advanced Study	1964
Don Eigler	Wetnose Institute for Advanced Pelagic Studies	2012
Val Logsdon Fitch	Princeton University	1966
E. Norval Fortson	University of Washington	1998
Hans Frauenfelder	Los Alamos National Laboratory	1975
Stuart Freedman	University of California, Berkeley	2001
Jerome Isaac Friedman	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1992
Mary Gaillard	University of California, Berkeley	1991
Richard Garwin	International Business Machines Corporation	1966
Murray Gell-Mann	Santa Fe Institute	1960
Margaret Geller	Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory	1992
Howard Georgi	Harvard University	1995
Vitaly Ginzburg	Russian Academy of Sciences	1981
Sheldon Glashow	Harvard University	1977
Roy J. Glauber	Harvard University	1988
Marvin L. Goldberger	University of California, San Diego	1963
Gerson Goldhaber	University of California, Berkeley	1977
Jerry Gollub	Haverford College	1993
Lev Gor'kov	Florida State University	2005
Kenneth Greisen	Cornell University	1974
David Gross	University of California, Santa Barbara	1986
Alan Guth	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1989
Martin Gutzwiller	International Business Machines Corporation	1992
Willy Haeberli	University of Wisconsin–Madison	2002
Theodor Haensch	Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics	2001
Maura Hagan	Utah State University	2019
Erwin Hahn	University of California, Berkeley	1972
John L. Hall	University of Colorado at Boulder	1984
Bertrand Halperin	Harvard University	1982
William Happer	Princeton University	1996
Serge Haroche	Collège de France	2010
James Hartle	University of California, Santa Barbara	1991
Jeffrey A. Harvey	University of Chicago	2014
Wick Haxton	University of Washington	1999
Ernest M. Henley	University of Washington	1979
W. Conyers Herring	Stanford University	1968
Pierre Hohenberg	New York University	1989
John Hopfield	Princeton University	1973
Gary Horowitz	University of California, Santa Barbara	2010
Barbara Jacak	Stony Brook University	2009
Roman Jackiw	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1998
J. D. Jackson	University of California, Berkeley	1990
Ali Javan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1974
Leo Kadanoff	University of Chicago	1978
Charles L. Kane	University of Pennsylvania	2014
David B. Kaplan	University of Washington	2013
Wolfgang Ketterle	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2002
H. Jeffrey Kimble	California Institute of Technology	2002
Toichiro Kinoshita	Cornell University	1991
Charles Kittel	University of California, Berkeley	1957
Steven Kivelson	Stanford University	2010
Daniel Kleppner	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1986
Walter Kohn	University of California, Santa Barbara	1969
Jun Kondo	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology	2009
Steven Koonin	U.S. Department of Energy	2010
William Kraushaar	University of Wisconsin–Madison	1973
Robert B. Laughlin	Stanford University	1994
Benjamin Lax	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1969
Leon M. Lederman	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	1965
David Lee	Cornell University	1991
Tsung-Dao Lee	Columbia University	1964
Anthony James Leggett	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	1997
Andrea Liu	University of Pennsylvania	2017
Allan MacDonald	The University of Texas at Austin	2010
Peter Mansfield	University of Nottingham	2009
Paul Martin	Harvard University	1979
John C. Mather	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	1997
Rudolf Mössbauer	Technical University of Munich	1978
Ben Roy Mottelson	Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics	1973
Margaret Murnane	University of Colorado at Boulder	2004
Ann Nelson	University of Washington	2012
David Nygren	University of California, Berkeley	2000
Nai Phuan Ong	Princeton University	2012
José Onuchic	Rice University	2006
Douglas D. Osheroff	Stanford University	1987
Albert Overhauser	Purdue University	1976
Roger Penrose	University of Oxford	1998
Saul Perlmutter	University of California, Berkeley	2002
William Daniel Phillips	National Institute of Standards and Technology	1997
David Pines	Los Alamos National Laboratory	1973
Robert Otto Pohl	Cornell University	1999
Alexander Polyakov	Princeton University	2005
Robert Pound	Harvard University	1961
Charles Y. Prescott	Stanford University	2001
John Preskill	California Institute of Technology	2014
David E. Pritchard	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1999
Helen Quinn	Stanford University	2003
Karin M. Rabe	Rutgers University	2013
Lisa Randall	Harvard University	2008
John Reppy	Cornell University	1988
Paul L. Richards	University of California, Berkeley	1985
Robert Coleman Richardson	Cornell University	1986
Burton Richter	Stanford University	1977
R. G. Hamish Robertson	University of Washington	2004
Heinrich Rohrer	International Business Machines Corporation	1988
Carlo Rubbia	European Organization for Nuclear Research	1987
Malvin Ruderman	Columbia University	1972
David Ruelle	Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques	2002
Subir Sachdev	Harvard University	2014
Nicholas P. Samios	Brookhaven National Laboratory	1982
Jack Sandweiss	Yale University	1987
Douglas Scalapino	University of California, Santa Barbara	1991
John Schiffer	Argonne National Laboratory	1987
J. Robert Schrieffer	Florida State University	1971
Melvin Schwartz	Columbia University	1975
John H. Schwarz	California Institute of Technology	1997
Frank J. Sciulli	Columbia University	2009
Frederick Seitz	Rockefeller University	1951
Andrew Sessler	University of California, Berkeley	1990
Kai Siegbahn	University of Uppsala	1983
Joseph Silk	Universite Pierre et Marie Curie	2014
Charles Slichter	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	1967
Dam Thanh Son	University of Chicago	2014
Peter Sorokin	International Business Machines Corporation	1976
Paul Steinhardt	Princeton University	1998
Harry Suhl	University of California, San Diego	1976
Leonard Susskind	Stanford University	2000
David Tank	Princeton University	2001
Richard E. Taylor	Stanford University	1993
Saul Teukolsky	Cornell University	2003
Walter Thirring	University of Vienna	1988
Kip Thorne	California Institute of Technology	1973
Maury Tigner	Cornell University	1993
Samuel C. C. Ting	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1977
Alvin V. Tollestrup	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	1996
Akira Tonomura	Hitachi, Ltd.	2000
George Trilling	University of California, Berkeley	1983
Michael Turner	University of Chicago	1997
Dale Van Harlingen	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	2003
Martinus J. G. Veltman	University of Michigan	2000
Robert Wald	University of Chicago	2001
Kenneth Watson	University of California, San Diego	1974
Steven Weinberg	University of Texas at Austin	1972
Rainer Weiss	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2000
Carl Wieman	University of Colorado at Boulder	1995
Arthur Wightman	Princeton University	1970
Frank Wilczek	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1990
Clifford Will	Washington University in St. Louis	2007
David Wineland	National Institute of Standards and Technology	1992
Mark B. Wise	California Institute of Technology	2007
Michael Witherell	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	1998
Edward Witten	Institute for Advanced Study	1988
Lincoln Wolfenstein	Carnegie Mellon University	1978
Stanford E. Woosley	University of California, Santa Cruz	2006
Chien-Shiung Wu	Columbia University	1958
Chen Ning Yang	State University of New York at Stony Brook	1965
Guangzhao Zhou	China Association for Science and Technology	1987
Bruno Zumino	University of California, Berkeley	1985
George Zweig	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1996
Leon Balents	University of California, Santa Barbara	2019
Michael Dine	University of California, Santa Cruz	2019
Roger W. Falcone	University of California, Berkeley	2019
Chris H. Greene	Purdue University	2019
Marc Kamionkowski	Johns Hopkins University	2019
Michal Lipson	Columbia University	2019
Bernard F. Schutz	Cardiff University	2019
Amir Yacoby	Harvard University	2019
Thomas Banks	Rutgers	2023 [1]
Michel Devoret	Yale University	2023 [2]
Glennys Farrar	New York University	2023 [3]
Paul Julienne	University of Maryland, College Park	2023 [4]
John Tranquada	Brookhaven National Laboratory	2023 [5]
Michelle D. Wang	Cornell University	2023 [6]
Zvi Bern	University of California, Los Angeles	2024 [7]
Noah Berrah	University of Connecticut	2024 [8]
David DeMille	Johns Hopkins University	2024 [9]
Bonnie Fleming	University of Chicago	2024 [10]
Francis Halzen	University of Wisconsin, Madison	2024 [11]
Chen-Yu Liu	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	2024 [12]
Senthil Todadri	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2024 [13]
Wojciech H. Zurek	Los Alamos National Laboratory	2024 [14]

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