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Name	Area	Department	Start Year	Stop Year	Advisor
Marc Aaronson	observational cosmology			1977	Giovanni G. Fazio (grad student)
Charles Alcock	Astronomy and Astrophysics
Lawrence Hugh Aller	planetary nebulae, stellar atmospheres, and the chemical composition of stars and nebulae			1943	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student)
Sean M. Andrews	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics
Halton C. Arp				1949	Bart J. Bok (research assistant)
Matthew L. N. Ashby	Astrophysics
Daniel M. Babich	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2006	Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
John Norris Bahcall	nuclear astrophysics, the solar neutrino problem			1961	David R. Layzer (grad student)
James Gilbert Baker	astronomy, optical physics			1942	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student)
David Louis Band	gamma-ray bursts			1985	Jonathan Ellis Grindlay (grad student)
Carl August Bauer	astronomy			1949	Fred Lawrence Whipple (grad student)
Edo Berger	Astronomy
Gurtina Besla	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics			2011	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Peter Blanchard		Astronomy	2013	2019	Edo Berger (grad student)
Laura E. Blecha	Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics	Astronomy		2012	Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
Peter F. Bloser	X-ray Astronomy			2000	Jonathan Ellis Grindlay (grad student)
Slavko B. Bogdanov	X-ray Astronomy			2008	Jonathan Ellis Grindlay (grad student)
Bart J. Bok	Astronomy		1929	1932	Harlow Shapley (research assistant), Harry Hemley Plaskett (research assistant)
Alceste Zoe Bonanos	Massive stars, variability, extragalactic distance scale, NEOs			2005	Krzysztof Z. Stanek (grad student)
Lewis M. Branscomb	science and technology policy			1949	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student)
Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge	Theoretical Astrophysics		1951	1953	Donald Howard Menzel (post-doc)
J. Anthony Burke				1965	David R. Layzer (grad student)
Blakesley K. Burkhart	Astrophysics Physics, Fluid and Plasma Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics	Astronomy	2015		Alyssa A. Goodman (post-doc)
Alastair Graham Walter Cameron	Astrophysics, Giant Impact theory for the origin of the Moon
Phillip A. Cargile	Astronomy
Nathaniel Phillips Carleton	Astrophysics			1956	Otto Oldenberg (grad student)
Andrew Chael	Black Hole Initiative	Astronomy		2019	Ramesh Narayan (grad student)
Eric Joseph Chaisson	Cosmic evolution; interdisciplinary science; complexity science; science education			1972	A. Edward Lilley (grad student)
Clarence Augustus Chant	astronomy, physics			1901	John Trowbridge (grad student)
Robert Dewitt Chapman				1965	Charles Allen Whitney (grad student)
Pinaki Chatterjee	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2004	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Hongsong Chou	Astrophysics			2001	George B. Field (grad student)
Yi Chou	X-ray Astronomy	Astronomy	1994	2001	Jonathan Ellis Grindlay (grad student)
Rob D. Coalson	Condensed Matter Physics, Polymer Chemistry, General Biophysics			1984	Martin Karplus (grad student)
Alanna Connors	astrostatistics
Thomas Edward Cravens	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid and Plasma Physics			1975	Alexander Dalgarno (grad student)
James Cuffey				1938	Harlow Shapley (grad student), Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Daniel John D'Orazio	Gravitational Wave and Black Hole Astrophysics
Luiz Alberto Nicolaci da Costa	extragalactic astrophysics		1974	1979	Alastair Graham Walter Cameron (grad student)
Yu (Sophia) Dai	formation and evolution of galaxies			2014	Giovanni G. Fazio (grad student)
Alexander Dalgarno	Astrophysics
Ashkbiz Danehkar	Astrophysics, Astronomy, Physics		2015	2017	Julia C. Lee (post-doc)
I. John Danziger	Astronomy
Marc Davis	Large-scale structure, cosmology, evolution of galaxies
Rebekah Ilene Dawson		Astronomy		2013	Ruth Murray-Clay (grad student)
Lynne Karen Deutsch	Mid-Infrared			1990	Giovanni G. Fazio (grad student)
Sheperd S. Doeleman	Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
Joseph Francis Dolan				1966	Giovanni G. Fazio (grad student)
Douglas James Doren	Condensed Matter			1986	Dudley R. Herschbach (grad student)
Frank Donald Drake	Radio astronomy			1958	Bart J. Bok (grad student), Thomas Gold (grad student), Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (grad student)
Maria Drout		Astronomy	2013	2016	Edo Berger (grad student)
Richard Brandner Dunn	solar physics			1960	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student)
Frank Kelley Edmondson	stellar kinematics, galactic structure, asteroid astrometry	Astronomy		1937	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Daniel J. Eisenstein	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1996	Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
Debra Anne Meloy Elmegreen				1979	William Liller (grad student)
John Wainwright Evans	Solar physics			1938	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Harold Irving (Doc) Ewen	Radio astronomy		1947	1951	Edward Mills Purcell (grad student), Donald Howard Menzel (grad student), Grote Reber (grad student)
Daniel G. Fabricant	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1978	Robert Vivian Pound (grad student)
Claude-andré Faucher-giguère	Galaxy formation and evolution, including star formation, galaxy-black hole co-evolution, galactic dynamics, and connections with the intergalactic medium and cosmology. Pulsars.			2010	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Eric Dennis Feigelson	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1980	Riccardo Giacconi (grad student)
George B. Field	Astrophysics
Robert Jay Finkelstein	Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics			1941	John H. van Vleck (grad student)
Vincent L. Fish	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2004	Mark J. Reid (grad student)
Willard James Fisher	Meteoric astronomy
Robert Fleischer	Solar-Terrestrial Research			1949	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student)
William Richard Forman				1973	William Liller (grad student)
Andrew S. Friedman	observational astronomy	Astronomy		2012	Robert P. Kirshner (grad student)
Steven R. Furlanetto				2003	Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
Gerald Gabrielse	Low energy tests of the Standard Model of particle physics and its symmetries, particle magnetic moments, one-particle traps, ultraviolet lasers, cryogenics, low temperature methods.
Bryan M. Gaensler	Astronomy and Astrophysics
Guido Alejandro Garay	interstellar medium, star formation			1983	James M. Moran (grad student)
Peter Garnavich	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Astronomy	1994	1999	Robert P. Kirshner (post-doc)
Owen J. Gingerich	Astronomy, History of Science			1961	Charles Allen Whitney (grad student)
Thomas Gold	Geophysics
Leo Goldberg	astrophysics			1938	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student)
Sebastian Gomez	Astronomy, Astrophysics	Astronomy Astronomy	2015	2021	Jonathan Ellis Grindlay (grad student), Edo Berger (grad student)
Jesse Leonard Greenstein	Astronomy			1937	Bart J. Bok (grad student), Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (research assistant)
Jonathan Ellis Grindlay	X-ray Astronomy			1971	Giovanni G. Fazio (grad student)
Robert Alfred Gross	plasma physics			1952	Howard Wilson Emmons (grad student)
Herbert Gursky	X-ray astronomy
Michael Gutperle		Physics	1999	2002	Andrew E. Strominger (post-doc)
Shadia R. Habbal	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid and Plasma Physics
Jason H. Hafner	plasmonics, nanomaterials, biophysics		1998	2001	Charles M. Lieber (post-doc)
Yusuke Hagihara	Celestial mechanics		1928	1929	George David Birkhoff (post-doc)
Asaph Hall	astronomy		1857	1858	Benjamin Peirce (research assistant)
Marijke Haverkorn		Astronomy	2002	2005	Bryan M. Gaensler (post-doc)
Gerald Stanley Hawkins	archaeoastronomy			1954	Fred Lawrence Whipple (research scientist)
Christopher Charles Hayward	Theoretical Astrophysics	Astronomy		2012	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
David Stuphin Heeschen	radio astronomy		1952	1954	Bart J. Bok (grad student), Harold Irving (Doc) Ewen (grad student)
Craig O. Heinke	X-ray Astronomy			2004	Jonathan Ellis Grindlay (grad student)
Lars Hernquist	Astrophysics Physics
Robeson M. Herrnstein	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2003	Paul T. P. Ho (grad student)
Francis Joseph Heyden	radio astronomy			1944	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Malcolm S. Hicken	observational astronomy			2009	Robert P. Kirshner (grad student)
Wynn Ho	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics, Fluid and Plasma Physics	Astronomy	2006	2008	Bryan M. Gaensler (post-doc)
Paul T. P. Ho	Astronomy and Astrophysics
Arthur Allen Hoag	photometry			1953	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Paul William Hodge	Local Group galaxies, modes of star formation, star clusters and their formation, HII regions in galaxies, meteorite craters.	Astronomy		1960	Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (grad student)
Loren Hoffman	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2007	Lars Hernquist (grad student), Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
Frank Scott Hogg	stellar spectrophotometry			1929	Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (grad student)
William Eager Howard				1958	Bart J. Bok (grad student), T. K. Menon (grad student), Harold F. Weaver (grad student)
John P. Huchra	Astronomy and Astrophysics
George Richard Huguenin	radio astronomy			1964	A. Edward Lilley (grad student)
Herbert Jehle	theoretical physics, biophysics
Saurabh W. Jha	observational astronomy			2002	Robert P. Kirshner (grad student)
Christine Jones Forman				1974	William Liller (grad student)
Franklin Edward Kameny				1956	Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (grad student)
Randall David Kamien	soft condensed matter			1992	David Robert Nelson (grad student)
Justin C. Kasper	Astrophysics Physics, Fluid and Plasma Physics
Charles Randy Keeton	Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics			1998	Christopher Sharpe Kochanek (grad student)
Eric Ravinen Keto				1987	Paul T. P. Ho (grad student)
Joost H. A. Kiewiet de Jonge				1954	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Ivan R. King	star clusters	Astronomy		1952	Harlow Shapley (grad student)
Robert P. Kirshner	observational astronomy
Truman Paul Kohman	radiochemistry			1938	Robert B. Woodward (research assistant)
Laura Kreidberg	exoplanets
David Allen Kring	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, General Biology			1989	John Armstead Wood (grad student)
Harold Hooker Lane		Lick Observatory		1932	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student)
David R. Layzer	Astrophysics	Astronomy		1950	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student)
Myron "Mike" Lecar	gravitational dynamics, planet formation, and the dynamics of our solar system
Julia C. Lee
Anne Lemiere			2006	2008	Bryan M. Gaensler (post-doc)
William Liller
A. Edward Lilley	radio astronomy			1954	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Albert Paul Linnell	binary systems			1950	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Don A. Lloyd	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2003	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Abraham (Avi) Loeb	Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Phyllis M. Lugger	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1982	George B. Field (grad student), William Liller (grad student)
Ragnhild Lunnan	Unusual transients, time-domain astronomy, observational astronomy.			2015	Edo Berger (grad student)
Donald Alexander MacRae	stellar spectroscopy			1943	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Kaisey S. Mandel	observational astronomy			2011	Robert P. Kirshner (grad student)
Brian Geoffrey Marsden	orbital mechanics
Bennett A. Maruca	Astrophysics Physics, Fluid and Plasma Physics	Astronomy		2012	Justin C. Kasper (grad student)
Ursula Bailey Marvin	planetary geology			1969	John Armstead Wood (grad student)
Thomas Arnold Matthews	Radio astronomy			1956	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Alan Maxwell	Radioastronomy
Jeffrey Eugene McClintock	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics
John Charles McConnell	Atmospheric Science Physics, Geophysics				Michael B. McElroy (research scientist)
Richard A. McCray	astrophysics
Sidney Wilcox McCuskey				1936	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
T. K. Menon	Astronomy	Physics and Astronomy		1956	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Donald Howard Menzel	Astrophysics
Michael R. Merrifield	structure of nearby galaxies			1990	Stephen Matthew Kent (grad student)
Freeman Devold Miller	Astronomy			1934	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Peter M Millman	meteor astronomy			1932	Willard James Fisher (grad student)
Kimball A. Milton	Theory Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics			1971	Julian Schwinger (grad student)
Philip Mocz	Theoretical Astrophysics	Astrophysics	2012	2017	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Maryam Modjaz	observational astronomy			2007	Robert P. Kirshner (grad student)
Duane Owen Muhleman				1964	A. Edward Lilley (grad student)
Joseph A. Munoz	Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics			2010	Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
Diego Jose Muñoz	theoretical astrophysics, accretion disks, planet formation, black hole binaries, orbital dynamics, astrophysical fluid dynamics	Astronomy	2006	2013	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Diego J. Munoz Anguita	Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics	Astronomy		2013	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Stephen S. Murray	Astrophysics
Ramesh Narayan	Astronomy and Astrophysics
Simon Newcomb	Mathematics, astronomy			1858	Benjamin Peirce (research assistant)
Gerald Higley Newsom				1968	Leo Goldberg (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.
Brian C. Odom	Quantum manipulation of trapped atoms and molecules for precision searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, quantum information processing, and quantum-controlled chemistry.			2004	Gerald Gabrielse (grad student)
Reuven Opher			1953	1958	Norman F. Ramsey (grad student)
Frank Quimby Orrall	solar corona			1956	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student), Richard Nelson Thomas (grad student)
Feryal Özel	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2002	Ramesh Narayan (grad student)
Patrick Edward Palmer	star formation			1968	A. Edward Lilley (grad student)
Tony S. Pan	Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics	Physics		2013	Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
Michael Demetrius Papagiannis				1964	Edward Mills Purcell (grad student), A. Edward Lilley (grad student)
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin	astrophysics		1923	1925	Henry Norris Russell (grad student)
Edward Charles Pickering	stellar spectroscopy		1876		Arthur Searle (research scientist)
James B. Pollack	planetary science			1965	Carl Sagan (grad student)
Bruce D. Popp		Astronomy	1981	1985	Robert Rosner (grad student)
Marc Postman	galaxy evolution; clusters of galaxies; large-scale structure	Astronomy	1981	1986	Margaret J. Geller (grad student)
Sudhakar Prasad	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Optics Physics			1983	Roy Jay Glauber (grad student)
William H. Press
Eliot Quataert	Astrophysics Physics, General Physics			1999	Ramesh Narayan (grad student)
Edmond M. Reeves	solar spectroscopy
Mark J. Reid	Astronomy and Astrophysics
George H. Rieke	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1969	Giovanni G. Fazio (grad student), Kenneth T. Bainbridge (grad student)
Adam G. Riess				1996	Robert P. Kirshner (grad student), William H. Press (research assistant)
Alexander Jesse Rimberg	Condensed Matter Physics			1992	Robert M. Westervelt (grad student)
Walter Orr Roberts	Astrogeophysics			1943	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student)
Brant E. Robertson	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2006	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Luis Felipe Rodríguez	Radio astronomy; radiointerferometry; star formation; protostellar jets; protoplanetary disks; Galactic X-ray sources			1978	Eric Joseph Chaisson (grad student)
Patricia Grizzaffi Rogers Campbell				1985	John Armstead Wood (research assistant)
Robert Rosner	Astrophysics theory, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, energy policy			1975	David R. Layzer (grad student)
Douglas S. Rubin	Astrophysics Physics	Physics		2014	Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
Olof Erik Hans Rydbeck	radar astronomy			1940	Harry Rowe Mimno (grad student)
Carl Sagan	planetary science and exobiology
Eric M. Schlegel	Astrophysics Physics		1986	1989	Robert P. Kirshner (post-doc)
Brian P. Schmidt	Astrophysics			1993	Robert P. Kirshner (grad student)
Michael Henry Schmitt	Electroweak boson production in hadron colliders, searches for new elementary particles and interactions, development of muon detectors.			1991	Francis Marion Pipkin (grad student)
Jürgen Harry Max Schmitt				1984	Robert Rosner (grad student)
Arthur Searle
Adrian W. Serohijos		Chemistry	2009	2015	Eugene I. Shakhnovich (post-doc)
Carl Kennan Seyfert	Astronomy, Seyfert galaxies	Astronomy		1936	Harlow Shapley (grad student)
Irwin I. Shapiro	astronomy, geophysics, and physics			1955	Roy Jay Glauber (grad student)
Paul Robert Shapiro	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1978	George B. Field (grad student)
Harlow Shapley	globular star clusters
Rahul Shetty	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Astronomy	2007	2010	Alyssa A. Goodman (post-doc)
Joseph Ivor Silk	Cosmology			1968	David R. Layzer (grad student)
Neil Sinclair					Marko Loncar (post-doc)
Wayne Lewis Slattery				1978	Alastair Graham Walter Cameron (post-doc)
Howard Alan Smith	Research Area Stars and the Interstellar Medium
Harlan James Smith	Astronomy			1955	Fred Lawrence Whipple (grad student)
William Henry Smyth	planetary exospheres and atmospheres			1972	Max Krook (grad student)
Gregory F. Snyder	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics	Astronomy		2013	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Gregory J. Sobczak	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2000	Jeffrey Eugene McClintock (grad student)
Alicia Margarita Soderberg	Astrophysics Physics, Statistics
Peter K. Sollins	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2005	Paul T. P. Ho (grad student)
Lyman Spitzer			1938	1939	Harlow Shapley (post-doc), Martin Schwarzschild (post-doc)
Charles Edward St.John			1889	1893	John Trowbridge (grad student), Benjamin Peirce (grad student)
Robert V. Stachnik	astronomical speckle interferometry
James F. Steiner	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics Physics	Astronomy		2012	Jeffrey Eugene McClintock (grad student)
Paul J. Steinhardt	particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, condensed-matter physics			1978	Sidney R. Coleman (grad student)
Francis Michael Stienon				1964	William Liller (grad student)
Nicholas C. Stone	Astrophysics Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics	Astronomy		2013	Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
Stephen Eric Strom	Astrophysics			1964	William Liller (grad student)
Sumin Tang	X-ray Astronomy	Astronomy		2012	Jonathan Ellis Grindlay (grad student)
Richard Glenn Teske				1962	Charles Allen Whitney (grad student)
Patrick Thaddeus	radio astronomy
Richard Nelson Thomas				1948	Donald Howard Menzel (grad student), Fred Lawrence Whipple (grad student)
Gordon B. Thomson	General Physics, Astrophysics Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics			1972	Francis Marion Pipkin (grad student)
Steven L. Tomsovic		Physics	1988	1991	Eric J. Heller (post-doc)
Paul A. Torrey	Astrophysics Physics	Astronomy		2014	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Richard Tousey	solar research from space			1933	Theodore T. Lyman (grad student)
Leon Paul Van Speybroeck	X-ray Astrophysics
Uco van Wijk	Astronomy			1952	Bart J. Bok (grad student)
Carlos Manuel Varsavsky				1959	David R. Layzer (grad student)
Joseph Frank Veverka	planetary science			1970	Fred Lawrence Whipple (grad student)
Ashley Villar		Astronomy	2014	2020	Edo Berger (grad student)
Elijah F. Visbal	Astrophysics Physics, General Physics	Physics		2013	Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
Ethan T. Vishniac	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid and Plasma Physics			1980	William H. Press (grad student)
Campbell Marion Wade	Radio Astronomy			1957	Bart J. Bok (grad student), David R. Layzer (grad student)
Xiaohu Wang	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid and Plasma Physics			2003	Abraham (Avi) Loeb (grad student)
James Walter Warwick	Astronomy			1951	Fred Lawrence Whipple (grad student)
Ira M. Wasserman	Theoretical Astrophysics			1978	George B. Field (grad student)
Fletcher Guard Watson				1938	Harlow Shapley (grad student)
Fred Lawrence Whipple	Astrophysics		1931	1934	Ernst Öpik (post-doc)
James Daniel Whitfield	Quantum algorithm, electronic structure, physics of computing			2011	Alán Aspuru-Guzik (grad student)
Charles Allen Whitney	Astrophysics	Astronomy		1955	Richard Nelson Thomas (grad student)
Joseph Winlock		American Nautical Almanac Office	1851		Benjamin Peirce (research assistant)
Edward L. Wright	infrared astronomy, cosmology			1976	Giovanni G. Fazio (grad student)
Stanley Porter Wyatt				1950	Bart J. Bok (grad student), Harlow Shapley (grad student)
Arjun G. Yodh	condensed matter physics, medical and biophysics, the optical sciences			1986	Thomas William Mossberg (grad student)
Joshua D. Younger	Astronomy and Astrophysics			2009	Lars Hernquist (grad student)
Ann I. Zabludoff	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Astronomy		1993	Margaret J. Geller (grad student), John P. Huchra (grad student)
Harold Zirin	solar astronomy		1953	1954	Philip M. Morse (grad student), Donald Howard Menzel (post-doc)
Benjamin Michael Zuckerman	origin and evolution of planetary systems			1968	A. Edward Lilley (grad student)