| Hector Osvaldo Castañeda | | Physics | 1982 | 1987 | Charles Robert O'Dell (grad student) |
| Zorawar Wadiasingh | | Physics & Astronomy | | 2014 | Matthew Geoffrey Baring (grad student) |
| Doyal Al Harper | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics | | | 1971 | Frank James Low (grad student) |
| J David Winningham | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid and Plasma Physics | | | | |
| Wayne R. Keith | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid and Plasma Physics | | | 2001 | J David Winningham (grad student) |
| Errol J. Summerlin | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid and Plasma Physics | | | 2009 | Matthew Geoffrey Baring (grad student) |
| Matthew Geoffrey Baring | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid and Plasma Physics | | | | |
| John P. Lestrade | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Gamma-Ray Bursts | Space Physics and Astronomy | 1974 | 1978 | Joseph Wyan Chamberlain (grad student) |
| Giovanni Fossati | Astrophysics Physics | | | | |
| Eileen T. Meyer | Astrophysics Physics | Physics and Astronomy | | 2012 | Giovanni Fossati (grad student) |
| Stanford Earl Woosley | Astrophysics Physics | | | 1971 | Donald D. Clayton (grad student) |
| Xuhui Chen | Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Theory Physics | | | 2012 | Giovanni Fossati (grad student) |
| Thomas C. Killian | Atomic Physics | | | | |
| Eric R I Abraham | Atomic Physics, Low Temperature Physics | | | 1995 | Randall Hulet (grad student) |
| Brian Akira Collins | carbon-based materials | | | 2001 | Enrique V. Barrera (research assistant) |
| Mustafa Amin | cosmology | | | | |
| Hong-Yi Zhang | Cosmology and astroparticle physics | Department of Physics and Astronomy | 2018 | | Mustafa Amin (grad student) |
| Albert Van Helden | History of Science, United States History, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Recreation | | | | |
| Susan Louise Geisel Kleinmann | infrared astronomy | | | 1971 | Frank James Low (grad student) |
| Thomas B. Clegg | Nuclear Physics | | | 1965 | Anthony C. L. Barnard (grad student) |
| Charles Robert O'Dell | Observational Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae, Star Formation | | | | |
| Jordan M. Gerton | Optics Physics | | | 2001 | Randall Hulet (grad student) |
| Joseph Wyan Chamberlain | Planetary Sciences | | | | |
| Jason H. Hafner | plasmonics, nanomaterials, biophysics | | | 1998 | Richard E. Smalley (grad student) |