| Saul J. Adelman | Stellar Astronomy | | | 1972 | Wallace L. W. Sargent (grad student) |
| Katherine A. Alatalo | Interstellar matter, radio astronomy, numerical analysis | | 2012 | 2015 | Philip Appleton (post-doc) |
| Charles Alcock | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 1977 | Peter Martin Goldreich (grad student) |
| Claudia Joan Alexander | planetary science | | | | |
| Mark Andrew Allen | planetary and exoplanetary atmospheres, comets, and cold interstellar molecular clouds | | 1978 | 1981 | G. Wilse Robinson (grad student), Yuk L. Yung (post-doc) |
| Kurt S. J. Anderson | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 1969 | J. Beverley Oke (grad student) |
| Theocharis Apostolatos | | | | 1994 | Kip S. Thorne (grad student) |
| Philip Appleton | | | | | |
| Lee Armus | Observational Astrophysics | | | | |
| W. David Arnett | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | 1967 | 1969 | William Alfred Fowler (post-doc) |
| Halton C. Arp | | | | 1953 | Walter Baade (grad student) |
| John Norris Bahcall | nuclear astrophysics, the solar neutrino problem | | 1962 | 1963 | William Alfred Fowler (post-doc) |
| Andrew J. Baker | Astrophysics | | | 2000 | Nicholas Z. (Nick) Scoville (grad student) |
| Nairn R. Baliber | | | | | |
| Mary Anne Barsony | | | | 1989 | Nicholas Z. (Nick) Scoville (grad student) |
| William Alvin Baum | UV space spectroscopy | | | 1950 | William Ralph Smythe (grad student), Richard Tousey (grad student) |
| Eric E. Becklin | Experimental Astrophysics | | | 1968 | Gerry Neugebauer (grad student) |
| Charles Arnold Beichman | exo-planet research | | | | |
| Eric Christopher Bellm | astrophysics | | | | |
| David Fulmer Bender | ephemerides of asteroids and comets | | | 1937 | William Vermillion Houston (grad student) |
| Dominic J. Benford | astrophysics | | 1992 | 1999 | Thomas G. Phillips (grad student) |
| Edo Berger | Astronomy | | | 2004 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| Varun B. Bhalerao | Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Transient, Neutron stars | Astrophysics Astrophysics | 2006 | 2012 | Fiona A. Harrison (grad student), Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student), Mansi M. Kasliwal (collaborator) |
| Ravinder S. Bhatia | | | | | |
| Nadejda (nadia) Blagorodnova Mujortova | | | | | |
| Andrew William Blain | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | | |
| Roger David Blandford | Astrophysics | | | | |
| Joshua S. Bloom | astronomy | | | 2002 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| John Gatenby Bolton | radio astronomy | | | | |
| Katherine Louise Bouman | Event Horizon Telescope project | | | | |
| Stephen A. Bourke | | | | | |
| George Hamilton Bowen | biophysics, astronomy | Physics | | 1953 | Max Delbrück (grad student) |
| Corinne M. Boyer | | | | | |
| Ido Braslavsky | Condensed Matter Physics, General Biophysics | | 2000 | 2003 | Stephen R Quake (post-doc) |
| Michael E. (Mike) Brown | Research Areas: Planetary Astronomy; Planetary Science | | | | |
| Robert J. Brunner | Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics | | 1997 | 2002 | S. George Djorgovski (post-doc), Thomas A. (Tom) Prince (post-doc) |
| Peter M. Bryant | | | | 1997 | Nicholas Z. (Nick) Scoville (grad student) |
| J Robert Buchler | astrophysics, chaos, supernovae | | | | William Alfred Fowler (post-doc) |
| Michael W. Busch | Astronomy | Planetary Science Planetary Science | | 2010 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student), Steven Jeffrey Ostro (grad student) |
| John Michael Carpenter | | | | | |
| John Irvin Castor | astrophysics | | | 1967 | J. Beverley Oke (grad student), Robert F. Christy (grad student) |
| Georgeanne Robertson Caughlan | stellar energy generation | | 1961 | 1963 | William Alfred Fowler (post-doc) |
| S. B. Cenko | Astronomy | Physics | | 2009 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| Deepto Chakrabarty | Astrophysics | | 1990 | 1996 | Thomas A. (Tom) Prince (grad student) |
| Ranga-Ram Chary | | IPAC | 2002 | 2003 | Willliam Reach (post-doc) |
| Goutam Chattopadhyay | Astronomy and astronomical instrumentation; airborne astronomy; coherent and incoherent detection; superconducting detectors; microwave techniques. | | | 2000 | Jonas Zmuidzinas (grad student) |
| Eugene Chiang | Astronomy | | | 2000 | Peter Martin Goldreich (grad student) |
| Yi Chou | X-ray Astronomy | Phyiscs | 1988 | 1990 | Wei-Tou Ni (grad student) |
| R. Todd Clancy | | | | 1983 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Arthur D. Code | space astronomy | | | | |
| Ann M. Cody | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Astronomy | | 2012 | Lynne A. Hillenbrand (grad student) |
| Judith G. Cohen | near-field cosmology | | | 1971 | Guido Münch (grad student) |
| Marshall H. Cohen | Radio Astronomy | | | | |
| Alessandra Corsi | | | 2010 | 2012 | Alan Jay Weinstein (post-doc), Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (post-doc) |
| David Crisp | | | | | |
| Abigail T. Crites | Cosmology, Extragalactic Astronomy & Astrophysics, Galactic Astronomy & Astrophysics | | | | |
| Jeffrey Nicholas Cuzzi | Planetary rings | | | 1973 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Yu (Sophia) Dai | formation and evolution of galaxies | | | | |
| Daniel Dale | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | | George Helou (post-doc) |
| Leverett Davis | Theoretical physics | | | 1941 | William Vermillion Houston (grad student) |
| Dorothy N. Davis Locanthi | astrophysics | | 1962 | 1969 | Jesse Leonard Greenstein (research scientist) |
| Selma de Mink | Stellar Physics, Stellar evolution, Stellar evolution under extreme conditions Stellar Transients, Progenitors of Supernovae and Gamma-ray bursts Gravitational Wave Astrophysics, Astrophysical sources and their progenitors Binary Interaction, Binary Merge | | | | |
| Tanio Diaz Santos | Galaxy formation and evolution | | 2011 | 2014 | Lee Armus (post-doc) |
| S. George Djorgovski | Astroinformatics | | | | |
| C. Darren Dowell | Astronomical instrumentation | | | | |
| Dmitry Duev | | | | | |
| Sheila E. Dwyer | | | | | |
| Christopher R. Echols | | | | | |
| Joshua A. Eisner | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 2005 | Lynne A. Hillenbrand (grad student) |
| Brent L. Ellerbroek | | | | 1979 | Wilhelmus Anthonius Josephus Luxemburg (grad student) |
| Aaron S. Evans | Observational Astrophysics | | 1996 | 1999 | Nicholas Z. (Nick) Scoville (post-doc) |
| Alison J. Farmer | Planetary Science | | | 2005 | Peter Martin Goldreich (grad student) |
| Alexei V. Filippenko | Supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the expansion of the Universe | | | 1984 | Wallace L. W. Sargent (grad student) |
| Krzysztof Findeisen | Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics | Astrophysics | | 2015 | Lynne A. Hillenbrand (grad student) |
| Lee Samuel Finn | Gravitational Physics & Cosmology | | | 1987 | Kip S. Thorne (grad student) |
| Eanna E. Flanagan | Gravitational Physics/Theoretical Astrophysics | | 1988 | 1993 | Kip S. Thorne (grad student) |
| William Alfred Fowler | Nuclear Physics, nuclear astrophysics | | | 1936 | Charles Christian Lauritsen (grad student) |
| Klaus Joachim Fricke | | Kellogg Radiation Laboratory | 1972 | 1973 | William Alfred Fowler (post-doc) |
| Aki Fujii | | | | | |
| James W Fuller | | | | | |
| Jiansong Gao | Astronomy and astronomical instrumentation; airborne astronomy; coherent and incoherent detection; superconducting detectors; microwave techniques. | Engineering and Applied Science | | 2008 | Jonas Zmuidzinas (grad student) |
| Neil Gehrels | gamma-ray bursts | | | 1982 | Edward Carroll Stone (grad student), Rochus E. (Robbie) Vogt (grad student) |
| Andrea Ghez | star formation, investigate the proposed massive black hole at the center of our Galaxy | | | 1993 | Gerry Neugebauer (grad student) |
| Luc Gilles | | | | | |
| Paul E. Gillett | | | | | |
| Kim Gillies | | | | | |
| John Evangelos Gizis | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 1998 | Iain Neill Reid (grad student) |
| William Joseph Glaccum | infrared arrays IRAC calibration interplanetary dust circumstellar dust hysteresis (memory effects) in detectors | | | | |
| Peter Martin Goldreich | Planetary Science | | | | |
| Alércio M. Gomes | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories | 1960 | 1961 | Fritz Zwicky (post-doc) |
| James R. Graham | | | | | |
| Richard Frederick Green | Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology, Instrumentation | Astronomy | | 1977 | Maarten Schmidt (grad student) |
| Jesse Leonard Greenstein | Astronomy | | | | |
| Daniel Grin | Cosmology, particle astrophysics, astrophysics, particle physics | Astronomy | | 2010 | Marc P. Kamionkowski (grad student) |
| Arie William Grossman | | | | 1990 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Pierre Guillard | | | 2010 | 2012 | Philip Appleton (post-doc) |
| James E. Gunn | observational cosmology, dark matter | | | 1966 | Guido Münch (grad student) |
| Mark A Gurwell | planetary radio astronomy; atmospheric spectroscopy; blazar monitoring | Geological and Planetary Sciences | 1990 | 1995 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Laura J. Hainline | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics | Astrophysics | | 2008 | Andrew William Blain (grad student) |
| Albert Frank Christian Haldemann | payload and assembly manager | | | 1997 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Gregg W. Hallinan | | | | | |
| Brad Hansen | Theoretical Astrophysics | | | 1996 | E. Sterl Phinney (grad student) |
| Daniel E. Harris | Radio astronomy | | | 1961 | John Gatenby Bolton (grad student), Gordon J. Stanley (grad student) |
| Jay Hauser | | | 1979 | 1985 | David G. Hitlin (grad student) |
| James C. Hermanson | Aerospace Engineering, General Engineering | | | 1985 | Paul E. Dimotakis (grad student) |
| Lars Hernquist | Astrophysics Physics | | | 1985 | Roger David Blandford (grad student) |
| Emil Rudolf Herzog | | | 1949 | 1951 | Fritz Zwicky (research scientist) |
| Albert Highe | Astronomy | | | 1981 | Robert Walton Vaughan (grad student) |
| Lynne A. Hillenbrand | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | | |
| Anna Y. Q. Ho | massive-star death | Astrophysics | | 2020 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| Mark David Hofstadter | atmospheres of planets, comets | | | 1992 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Elizabeth Katherine Holmes | dynamics of interplanetary dust | Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2002 | 2004 | Charles Arnold Beichman (post-doc), Thangasamy Velusamy (post-doc) |
| Keith Douglas Horne | | | | 1983 | J. Beverley Oke (grad student) |
| John P. Huchra | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 1977 | Wallace L. W. Sargent (grad student) |
| Hanae Inami | | | | | |
| Anton B. Ivanov | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science Physics, Geophysics | | | 2002 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Bryan A. Jacoby | Astronomy | | | 2005 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| Raymond Jeanloz | nature and evolution of planetary interiors, as well as the properties of materials at high pressures. | | | 1979 | Thomas J. Ahrens (grad student) |
| David Jewitt | | | | 1983 | Yuk L. Yung (grad student) |
| Helen M. Johnston | Astronomy | | | 1992 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| Jun Jugaku | Astronomy | | | 1958 | Wallace L. W. Sargent (research scientist) |
| Lucas W. Kamp | | | | | |
| Mansi M. Kasliwal | Astronomy | Astrophysics | | 2011 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| William John Kaufmann | popularizer of astronomy | | | | |
| Kenneth I. Kellermann | radio galaxies, quasars, cosmology, the development of new instrumentation for radio astronomy, and the history of radio astronomy | | | 1963 | Gordon J. Stanley (grad student) |
| Julia Dusk Kennefick | Active Galaxies, Spiral Galaxies, Exoplanets | Astronomy | 1989 | 1995 | S. George Djorgovski (grad student) |
| Stephen Matthew Kent | | | | 1980 | Wallace L. W. Sargent (grad student) |
| Robert Burnett King | Stellar Spectroscopy | | | | |
| Evan N. Kirby | formation and evolution of galaxies | | | | |
| Joseph Davy Kirkpatrick | Brown dwarfs, spectral classification, Solar Neighborhood, low-mass stars | | | | |
| Robert P. Kirshner | observational astronomy | | | 1975 | J. Beverley Oke (grad student) |
| Michael John Klein | radio astronomy | | | | |
| Christopher Sharpe Kochanek | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics | | | 1989 | Roger David Blandford (grad student) |
| Jin Koda | Astronomy. | | | | |
| Arieh Konigl | Astrophysics Physics | | | 1980 | Roger David Blandford (grad student) |
| Adam L. Kraus | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Astrophysics | | 2010 | Lynne A. Hillenbrand (grad student) |
| Shrinivas R. Kulkarni | Astronomy | | | | |
| Shwetank Kumar | Astronomy and astronomical instrumentation; airborne astronomy; coherent and incoherent detection; superconducting detectors; microwave techniques. | Applied Physics | | 2008 | Jonas Zmuidzinas (grad student) |
| Pawan Kumar | Astrophysics | | | 1988 | Peter Martin Goldreich (grad student) |
| E. Robert Kursinski | atmospheric remote sensing | | | 1997 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Nikolaos Kylafis | Astrophysics | | 1979 | 1981 | Peter Martin Goldreich (post-doc) |
| Barry James LaBonte | solar physics | | | 1979 | Harold Zirin (grad student) |
| Dong Lai | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics | | 1994 | 1997 | Peter Martin Goldreich (post-doc), E. Sterl Phinney (post-doc), Kip S. Thorne (post-doc) |
| Thomas Lai | | | 2021 | | Lee Armus (post-doc) |
| James E. Larkin | extragalactic astrophyics, adaptive optics (AO) and infrared instrumentation | | | 1996 | B. Thomas Soifer (grad student) |
| Kirsten L. Larson | | | 2015 | 2019 | Lee Armus (post-doc), Tanio Diaz Santos (post-doc) |
| Richard B. Larson | star formation, galaxy formation, evolution of galaxies | | | 1968 | Guido Münch (grad student) |
| Robert B. Leighton | solid state physics, cosmic ray physics, the beginnings of modern particle physics, solar physics, planetary photography, infrared astronomy, and millimeter- and submillimeter-wave astronomy | | | 1947 | Paul Sophus Epstein (grad student), William Vermillion Houston (grad student) |
| Roger Paul Linfield | | | | 1981 | Marshall H. Cohen (grad student), Roger David Blandford (grad student), Anthony C. Readhead (grad student) |
| Yoram Lithwick | Planet formation, dynamics of planetary systems, accretion disks, MHD turbulence, cosmological halo formation, gamma-ray bursts. | | | 2002 | Peter Martin Goldreich (grad student) |
| Junjun Liu | Planetary Science | | | 2006 | Peter Martin Goldreich (grad student) |
| Jonathan I. Lunine | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 1985 | David J. Stevenson (grad student) |
| Ragnhild Lunnan | Unusual transients, time-domain astronomy, observational astronomy. | | | | |
| Ashish Mahabal | | | | | |
| Swarnima Manohar | | | | 2016 | Nicholas Z. (Nick) Scoville (grad student) |
| Christopher Martin | Astronomy; Physics | | | | |
| Philip Massey | | | | | |
| John Samuel Mathis | | | | 1956 | Donald E. Osterbrock (grad student) |
| Dimitri Mawet | | | | | |
| Arthur B. McDonald | particle physics | | | 1970 | Charles Andrew Barnes (grad student) |
| Willaim R. Mcveigh | | | | | |
| Aden Baker Meinel | | | | | |
| Karin Menendez-Delmestre | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Astronomy | | 2009 | Andrew William Blain (grad student) |
| Stanimir A. Metchev | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 2006 | Lynne A. Hillenbrand (grad student) |
| Dimitri Mihalas | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 1964 | J. Beverley Oke (grad student) |
| Michael Coleman Miller | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics | | | 1990 | E. Sterl Phinney (grad student) |
| Forrest S. Mozer | Space Plasma Physics, Nuclear Physics, Electrical Engineering | | 1951 | 1956 | William Alfred Fowler (grad student) |
| Duane Owen Muhleman | | | | | |
| Guido Münch | astrophysics | | | | |
| Stephen S. Murray | Astrophysics | | | 1971 | Edward Carroll Stone (grad student) |
| Daniel Nadeau | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 1981 | Gerry Neugebauer (grad student) |
| Ramesh Narayan | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy | 1983 | 1984 | Roger David Blandford (post-doc) |
| Bret J. Naylor | Astronomy and astronomical instrumentation; airborne astronomy; coherent and incoherent detection; superconducting detectors; microwave techniques. | Physics | | 2008 | Jonas Zmuidzinas (grad student) |
| Gerry Neugebauer | infrared astronomy | | | 1960 | Robert L. Walker (grad student) |
| Omid Noroozian | Astronomy and astronomical instrumentation; airborne astronomy; coherent and incoherent detection; superconducting detectors; microwave techniques. | Electrical Engineering | | 2012 | Jonas Zmuidzinas (grad student) |
| Robert W. Noyes | Solar and stellar seismology; solar structure and dynamics; detection and characterization of planets around other stars; origin and evolution of planetary systems. | | | 1963 | Robert B. Leighton (grad student) |
| Eran Oded Ofek | Astrophysics | Astronomy | | | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (post-doc) |
| J. Beverley Oke | stellar and extragalactic astronomy | | | | |
| Bernard More Oliver | electronics, radio engineering, physics, astronomy, computer science, and biology | | | 1940 | Samuel Stuart Mackeown (grad student) |
| Ben R. Oppenhiemer | | | | 1999 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| Steven Jeffrey Ostro | planetary radar astronomy | | | | |
| Arkadas I. Ozakin | | | | 2004 | Peter Martin Goldreich (grad student), Mark B. Wise (grad student) |
| Don Nelson Page | Cosmology, theoretical gravitational physics | | | 1976 | Kip S. Thorne (grad student) |
| Dimitri Anastassios Papanastassiou | | | | 1970 | Gerald J. Wasserburg (grad student) |
| Rahul I. Patel | | | | | |
| Vasiliki Pavlidou | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | 2008 | 2011 | Anthony C. Readhead (post-doc) |
| Timothy J. Pearson | | | | | |
| Laura M. Perez Munoz | Catalysis, Molecular Therapy | Astronomy | | 2013 | John R. Carpenter (grad student) |
| Bruce A. Peterson | | | | 1969 | Maarten Schmidt (grad student) |
| Thomas G. Phillips | millimeter and submillimeter-wave detection for astronomy | | | | |
| E. Sterl Phinney | Theoretical Astrophysics | | | | |
| Carolyn C. Porco | Saturn's rings, Endeladus | Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences | 1974 | 1983 | Peter Martin Goldreich (grad student) |
| William H. Press | | | | 1973 | Kip S. Thorne (grad student) |
| Thomas A. (Tom) Prince | Astrophysics | | | | |
| Alvise Raccanelli | Cosmology, Astrophysics, Physics, Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | | | Olivier P. Dore (post-doc) |
| Darin Ragozzine | | | 2004 | 2009 | Michael E. (Mike) Brown (grad student) |
| Vikram Ravi | | | | | |
| Anthony C. Readhead | observational cosmology | | | | |
| Russell Ormond Redman | | | | 1982 | Peter Gregory Wannier (grad student) |
| Iain Neill Reid | | | | | |
| Mark J. Reid | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 1976 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Adric R. Riedel | | | | | |
| Robert Thomas Rood | stellar evolution, stellar abundances and nucleosynthesis | | 1971 | 1973 | William Alfred Fowler (post-doc) |
| Carl Albert Rouse | Astrophysics | | | 1956 | Carl D. Anderson (grad student), Eugene Woodville Cowan (grad student) |
| Helene Roussel | | | 2001 | 2005 | George Helou (post-doc) |
| Jagmit S. Sandhu | Astronomy | | | 2001 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| Anneila I. Sargent | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics | | | 1978 | Peter Martin Goldreich (grad student) |
| Wallace L. W. Sargent | | | 1959 | 1962 | Jesse Leonard Greenstein (post-doc) |
| Re'em Sari | Astrophysics | | | | |
| Paul Schechter | Astrophysics, Cosmology | | | 1975 | James E. Gunn (grad student) |
| F. Peter Schloerb | | Astronomy | | 1978 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Donald P. Schneider | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 1982 | James E. Gunn (grad student) |
| Kate Scholberg | Elementary Particles and High Energy | | | 1997 | Charles W. Peck (grad student), Barry Clark Barish (grad student) |
| Nicholas Z. (Nick) Scoville | | | | | |
| Leonard Searle | | | | | |
| Richard Langley Sears | astrophysicists | | 1961 | 1964 | William Alfred Fowler (research scientist) |
| George A. Seielstad | | | | 1963 | Gordon J. Stanley (grad student) |
| Kathryn Pierce Shah | | | | 1992 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Alice Shapley | | | | 2003 | Charles C. Steidel (grad student) |
| Stephen Alan Shectman | | Astronomy | | 1974 | James E. Gunn (grad student) |
| Gregory Alan Shields | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | | 1973 | J. Beverley Oke (grad student) |
| Henry L. Shipman | Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, General Physics | | | 1971 | J. Beverley Oke (grad student) |
| Esayas Shume | | | | | |
| Damon Paul Simonelli | Planetary Science | | | | |
| Neil Sinclair | | | | | Maria Spiropulu (post-doc) |
| Tom Siofer | | | | | |
| Catherine L. Slesnick | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics | Astrophysics | | 2008 | Lynne A. Hillenbrand (grad student) |
| Alicia Margarita Soderberg | Astrophysics Physics, Statistics | | | 2007 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| B. Thomas Soifer | Galaxy Evolution & Infrared Instrumentation | | | | |
| Baruch T. Soifer | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Optics Physics | | | | |
| Gordon J. Stanley | Radioastronomy | | | | |
| Karl Roald Stapelfeldt | | | | 1991 | Nicholas Z. (Nick) Scoville (grad student) |
| John R. Stauffer | astrophysics | | | | |
| Leo C Stein | General relativity, gravitation, gravitational waves, compact objects, black holes | Physics | 2015 | 2018 | Yanbei Chen (post-doc) |
| Charles L. Steinhardt | | | | | |
| Paul J. Steinhardt | particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, condensed-matter physics | | | 1974 | Richard P. Feynman (research assistant), Barry Clark Barish (research assistant), Frank Joseph Sciulli (research assistant) |
| Reiner Stenzel | | | | 1970 | Roy W Gould (grad student) |
| Lawrence M. Stepp | | | | | |
| Matthew A. Stevenson | | Astronomy | | 2014 | Anthony C. Readhead (grad student) |
| Natalia I. Storch | | Physics | | 2015 | Dong Lai (grad student) |
| Matthew C. Sumner | Astronomy and astronomical instrumentation; airborne astronomy; coherent and incoherent detection; superconducting detectors; microwave techniques. | Physics | | 2011 | Jonas Zmuidzinas (grad student) |
| Shriharsh P. Tendulkar | Astronomy | Astrophysics | | 2014 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| Saul Arno Teukolsky | Gravitational Physics/Theoretical Astrophysics | | 1970 | 1973 | Kip S. Thorne (grad student) |
| Kip S. Thorne | Gravitational Physics/Theoretical Astrophysics | | | | |
| Scott Tremaine | Astronomy and Astrophysics | | 1975 | 1977 | Peter Martin Goldreich (post-doc) |
| Vivian U | extragalactic astronomy | Astrophysics | | 2006 | Richard S. Ellis (research assistant) |
| Schuyler D. Van Dyk | | | | | |
| Thangasamy Velusamy | Astrophsyics | | | | |
| Joaquin D. Vieira | Cosmology, Extragalactic Astronomy & Astrophysics, Galactic Astronomy & Astrophysics | | 2009 | 2013 | Andrew Evan Lange (post-doc) |
| Benjamin F. Villac | Aerospace Engineering | | | | |
| Rochus E. (Robbie) Vogt | Laser Interferometer Gravitational- wave Observatory | | | | |
| Robert V. Wagoner | gravitational astrophysics | | 1965 | 1968 | William Alfred Fowler (post-doc) |
| George Wallerstein | chemical composition of stellar atmospheres | | | 1958 | Walter Baade (grad student), Jesse Leonard Greenstein (grad student) |
| Peter Gregory Wannier | | | | | |
| William Roger Ward | theoretical astrophysics | | | 1973 | Peter Martin Goldreich (grad student) |
| Kurt W. Weiler | | | | 1970 | George A. Seielstad (grad student) |
| Eric W. Weisstein | | | | 1996 | Duane Owen Muhleman (grad student) |
| Michael Wolock Werner | infrared astronomy | | | | Gerry Neugebauer (research scientist) |
| Sloane J. Wiktorowicz | Astronomy | Planetary Science | | 2009 | Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (grad student) |
| Robert LeRoy Wildey | Lunar observation | | | 1962 | Halton C. Arp (grad student), Allan Rex Sandage (grad student) |
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| Albert George Wilson | | | | 1948 | Harry Bateman (grad student), Fritz Zwicky (research scientist) |
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| Christine D. Wilson | | | | 1990 | Nicholas Z. (Nick) Scoville (grad student) |
| Amos Yahil | Astrophysics. | | | 1970 | Steven C. Frautschi (grad student), George Zweig (grad student) |
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| Herman Zanstra | astrophysics | | 1925 | 1926 | Paul Sophus Epstein (post-doc) |
| Harold Zirin | solar astronomy | | | | |
| Jonas Zmuidzinas | Astronomy and astronomical instrumentation; airborne astronomy; coherent and incoherent detection; superconducting detectors; microwave techniques. | | | | |
| Fritz Zwicky | theoretical and observational astronomy | | | | |