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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Name	Area	Department	Start Year	Stop Year	Advisor
Charles Greeley Abbot				1895	Arthur A. Noyes (grad student)
Daniel Michael Abrams	Applied Mathematics	EAPS			Daniel Harris Rothman (post-doc)
Ronald John Allen	interstellar medium in galaxies			1967	Alan Hildreth Barrett (grad student)
Fran Bagenal	Atmospheric Sciences, Physical Chemistry, Astrophysics Physics	Earth and Planetary Sciences	1976	1981	John Winston Belcher (grad student)
Rennan Barkana	Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology: 21-cm cosmology, formation of the first stars and quasars, cosmic dawn and cosmic reionization, dark matter, galaxy formation, large-scale structure, and gravitational lensing			1997	Edmund W. Bertschinger (grad student)
Alan Hildreth Barrett	radio astronomy, and the spectroscopic study of the interstellar medium
Charles L. Bennett	Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)			1984	Bernard F. Burke (grad student)
Richard P. Binzel	asteroids and Pluto
Manfred A. Biondi	plasma physics			1949	Sanborn Conner Brown (grad student)
Elihu Boldt	Astrophysics			1958	David O. Caldwell (grad student), Bruno Benedetto Rossi (grad student)
Adam Stallard Bolton	Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics			2005	Scott Michael Burles (grad student)
Katherine Louise Bouman	Event Horizon Telescope project			2017	William T. Freeman (grad student)
Edward R. Boyce		Planetary Science and Astronomy Planetary Science and Astronomy		2006	Steven Theodore Myers (grad student), Jacqueline Nina Hewitt (grad student)
Bernard F. Burke	Astrophysics			1953	Malcom W.P. Strandberg (grad student)
Adam S. Burrows	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1979	Kenneth Brecher (grad student)
Webster C. Cash	Astronomy and Astrophysics
Deepto Chakrabarty	Astrophysics	Center for Space Research	1996	1999	Hale V. Bradt (post-doc)
Tom Chang
Bruce Douglas Chapman	Radar Remote Sensing	Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences	1982	1986	Gordon Hemenway Pettengill (grad student)
Robert Clare	High energy physics experiment			1982	Min Chen (grad student)
George W. Clark	x-ray astronomy			1952	Bruno Benedetto Rossi (grad student)
Christopher B Crawford	Nuclear Physics			2005	Haiyan Gao (grad student)
Ashkbiz Danehkar	Astrophysics, Astronomy, Physics		2015	2017	Michael A. Nowak (post-doc)
Sumner Prindle Davis	astrophysics			1959	George Russell Harrison (post-doc)
Sheperd S. Doeleman	Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)			1995	Alan Ernest Exel Rogers (grad student), Bernard F. Burke (grad student)
Rodger Evans Doxsey				1974	Hale V. Bradt (grad student)
Anthony Duncan	General Physics, Molecular Physics			1975	Roman Wladimir Jackiw (grad student)
Edward Willson Dunham
Sheila E. Dwyer				2013	Nergis Mavalvala (grad student)
Donald Ellis	Numerical calculation of material properties, including composite materials, electroceramics, and bioceramics.	Physics Physics		1966	George F. Koster (grad student), John Clarke Slater (grad student)
Giovanni G. Fazio	Infrared Astronomy		1954	1959	David M. Ritson (grad student), Robert A. Schluter (grad student)
Michael McNeil Forbes	Nuclear Theory, Quantum Dynamics, Astrophysics, AMO	Physics	2000	2005	Frank Wilczek (grad student)
Arthur J. Freeman	First-principles simulations of complex materials, including their structural, electronic, magnetic, optical and mechanical properties.			1956	John Clarke Slater (grad student)
Andrew S. Friedman	observational astronomy
Bryan M. Gaensler	Astronomy and Astrophysics
Michael Gaffey	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mineralogy, Geology	Earth and Planetary Sciences		1974	Thomas B. McCord (grad student)
Maximilian N. Günther	Astronomy; Astrophysics; Exoplanets; Stellar Flares
Heidi B. Hammel	astronomy, planetary astronomy, planetary science	Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences	1979	1982	James Ludlow Elliot (research assistant)
Martin O. Harwit	Infrared astronomy			1960	William P. Allis (grad student)
Sebastian Heinz	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics		2003	2006	Deepto Chakrabarty (post-doc)
Reyco Henning	General Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics, Radiation Physics			2004	Ulrich Becker (grad student)
Wynn Ho	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics, Fluid and Plasma Physics		2005	2006	Deepto Chakrabarty (post-doc)
Paul T. P. Ho	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1977	Alan Hildreth Barrett (grad student)
Huan Huang				1990	Lee Grodzins (grad student)
James M. Jackson	star formation; radio astronomy			1985	Alan Hildreth Barrett (grad student)
Douglas J. Jerolmack	Geomorphology, Geophysics			2006	David Carl Mohrig (grad student)
Jay R Johnson	Space Plasma Physics	Physics			Tom Chang (grad student)
Justin C. Kasper	Astrophysics Physics, Fluid and Plasma Physics		1999	2003	Alan Jay Lazarus (grad student), John Winston Belcher (grad student), Bruno Coppi (grad student)
Stephen Matthew Kent				1974	Thomas B. McCord (research assistant)
Thomas C. Killian	Atomic Physics		1993	1999	Daniel Kleppner (grad student), Thomas J. Greytak (grad student)
James Jay Klavetter				1989	Edward Willson Dunham (grad student), James Ludlow Elliot (grad student)
William L. Kraushaar	high-energy astronomy
Glen Irvin Langston	Astronomy, structure of the Milky Way, Radio astronomy, astro-chemistry, visions for future research projects	Physics	1982	1987	Bernard F. Burke (grad student)
Amitabh Lath	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics			1995	Henry W. Kendall (grad student)
Julia C. Lee
Robert L. Leheny	General Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science Engineering		1997	2000	Robert J. Birgeneau (post-doc)
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître	Cosmology			1927	Harry Manley Goodwin (grad student)
Walter H.G. Lewin	X-ray astronomy
Elefterios Lidorikis	Computational Materials Science		2001	2004	John D. Joannopoulos (grad student)
Fred (Kwok-Yung) Lo	Radio astronomy			1974	Bernard F. Burke (grad student)
Eugene Allen Magnier	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1993	Walter H.G. Lewin (grad student)
Petar Maksimovic	Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics			1998	Paraskevas Andreas Sphicas (grad student)
Thomas Henry Markert	X-ray astronomy			1975	George W. Clark (grad student)
John F. Marko	Applications of statistical mechanics and polymer physics to biophysical problems.			1989	A. Nihat Berker (grad student)
Jeffrey Eugene McClintock	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics			1969	Walter H.G. Lewin (grad student)
Priyamvada Natarajan				1990	Alan H. Guth (research assistant)
Michael A. Nowak
Craig A. Ogilvie	General
Angela V. Olinto	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1987	Edward H. Farhi (grad student)
Steven Jeffrey Ostro	planetary radar astronomy	Earth and Planetary Science		1978	Gordon Hemenway Pettengill (grad student)
Yash Pal	cosmic rays			1958	Bruno Benedetto Rossi (grad student)
Dheeraj R. Pasham	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics		2019	2019	Deepto Chakrabarty (post-doc), Deepto Chakrabarty (research scientist)
Roberto Daniele Peccei	Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics			1969	Kenneth Alan Johnson (grad student)
Gordon Hemenway Pettengill	Radio Astronomy, Planetary Remote Sensing
Edward Charles Pickering	stellar spectroscopy		1865	1868	William Barton Rogers (research scientist)
Bradley R Plaster	Nuclear Physics, Fundamental Symmetries				Stanley B. Kowalski (grad student)
Simon Frederik Portegies Zwart			2000	2002	Frederic Rasio (post-doc)
Karin M. Rabe	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics			1987	John D. Joannopoulos (grad student)
George Rollins Ricker	astronomy, high energy astrophysics, experimental physics			1971	Walter H.G. Lewin (grad student)
Marcia J. Rieke	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1976	Susan Louise Geisel Kleinmann (grad student)
Alan Ernest Exel Rogers				1967	Alan Hildreth Barrett (grad student)
William Barton Rogers
Robert Thomas Rood	stellar evolution, stellar abundances and nucleosynthesis			1969	Icko Iben (grad student)
Robyn Ellyn Sanderson	dark matter			2011	Edmund W. Bertschinger (grad student)
Paul Schechter	Astrophysics, Cosmology
Selim Shahriar	Gravity wave detection, cooling and trapping of neutral atoms, quantum computing, optical communication, optical coherence tomography.			1992	Shaoul Ezekiel (grad student)
Nora Shipp
Samuel Silver	radio astronomy, upper atmosphere	Physics		1940	John Clarke Slater (grad student)
Martin Alphonse Slade				1971	Irwin I. Shapiro (grad student)
Leo C Stein	General relativity, gravitation, gravitational waves, compact objects, black holes	Physics	2006	2012	Scott Alexander Hughes (grad student)
Harlan True Stetson
Terry Tomboulis		Physics		1976	Roman Wladimir Jackiw (grad student)
Alar Toomre	Astrophysics, Stellar Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics
Leon Paul Van Speybroeck	X-ray Astrophysics			1965	Henry W. Kendall (grad student), Jerome I. Friedman (grad student)
David Hamilton Vanderbilt	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Theory Physics, Materials Science Engineering			1981	John D. Joannopoulos (grad student)
Faith Vilas	planetary science, asteroids, surface composition	Earth and Planetary Sciences	1973	1975	Thomas B. McCord (grad student)
Lorenza Viola	Quantum Physics		1997	2000	Seth Lloyd (post-doc)
Martin D. Weinberg	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Physics	1982	1984	Scott Tremaine (grad student)
Rainer Weiss	Experimental Atomic Physics, Atomic Clocks, Laser Physics,Experimental Gravitation, Millimeter and Sub - millimeter, Astronomy, Cosmic Background Measurements,			1962	Jerrold R. Zacharias (grad student), John G. King (grad student)
Thomas L. Wilson	radioastronomy, astrophysics			1969	Bernard F. Burke (grad student)
Kent Sebastian Wood	X-ray astronomy			1973	Philip Morrison (grad student)
Eliot Fisher Young				1993	Richard P. Binzel (grad student)
Chi Yuan			1966	1969	Chia-Chiao Lin (post-doc)
Horace Yuen	Theory of quantum optics and communication, the foundations of quantum physics, new quantum devices, quantum cryptography.	Electrical Engineering		1970	Robert S. Kennedy (grad student)
Stanislaus A. Zygmunt	computational materials, computational catalysis,	Materials Science and Engineering	1984	1988	Keith Huber Johnson (grad student)