| John Hopkin Nuckolls | inertial confinement fusion | | 1955 | 1965 | Edward Teller (research scientist) |
| David Franklin Edwards | Solid state physics | | | | |
| John Stuart Foster | nuclear physics | | | | |
| Harold Paul Furth | Plasma Physics | | 1956 | 1960 | Edward Teller (post-doc) |
| William L. Kruer | Plasma Physics | | | | |
| John D. Lindl | high energy density physics, inertial confinement fusion | | | | |
| Michael Melville May | | | | | |
| George H. Miller | Nuclear physics | | | | |
| Cherry A. Murray | surface, condensed matter and complex fluid physics | | | | |
| John D. Anderson | Nuclear physics | | | | |
| Richard Freeman Post | electron physics, traveling wave electron linear accelerators, controlled fusion, scintillation counter resolving time, high temperature plasmas, and energy storage. | | | | |
| Jutta Escher | | | | | Amiram Leviatan (post-doc) |
| Curtis Bruce Tarter | Astrophysics | | | | |
| Andrew J. Pascall | Fluid Mechanics, Materials Science | | | | |
| Harold Brown | | | | | |
| Yuan Shi | Plasma Physics | | 2018 | 2021 | Stephen B. Libby (post-doc) |
| Robert Tyler Sutherland | quantum gates, quantum optics, quantum simulations, quantum information, quantum computing, open quantum systems | Physics | 2017 | 2019 | Stephen B. Libby (post-doc) |
| Berni J. Alder | Molecular dynamics | | | | |
| Matthew Peter Selwood | Laser Physics, imaging, inertial confinement fusion, laser Wakefield acceleration | | | | |
| Chad C. Ummel | physics, nuclear physics, experimental nuclear physics | | | | |
| Francesco Ricci | | | | | Vincenzo Fiorentini (grad student) |
| John Francis Clauser | interferometry, quantum theory | | | | |
| Douglas Scott Miller | hydrodynamics, computational physics, astrophysics | | | | |
| Kalpani Werellapatha | Condensed matter physics | | | | |
| Christopher A Walsh | plasma physics, magnetohydrodynamics | | | | |
| L. Donald Pearlstein | | | | | |
| Ian J. Thompson | Nuclear theory, nuclear data | | | | |
| Randolph Q. Hood | Quantum Physics | | | | |
| Abraham Szöke | laser fusion, High Energy Density Plasmas | | | | |
| Abraham Goldberg | | | | | |
| Simon Shin-Lun Yu | Plasma physics, High energy density physics, Intense beam physics | | | | |
| Herbert Frank York | Nuclear physics | | | | |
| Stewart David Bloom | | | | | |
| Michael R. Anastasio | Theoretical Nuclear Physics | | | | |
| Natalie Hell | | | | 2017 | Greg Brown (grad student) |
| Peter P. Eggleton | evolution of stars | | | | |
| Carl Edward Rosenkilde | | | | | |
| John George Fletcher | | | | | |
| Stephen David Murray | Astrophysics | | | | |
| Edward P. Hartouni | Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics | | | | |
| Henry F. Shaw | Isotope gechemistry | | | | |
| Joseph Wasem | Nuclear Physics | | | | |
| Jeff A. Drocco | | | | | |
| Filomena Nunes | nuclear physics | | | | Ian J. Thompson (post-doc) |
| James Ricker Wilson | nuclear astrophysics | | | | |
| Walter Willem Nederbragt | Mechanical engineering | | | | |
| John J. Barnard | Heavy Ion Fusion, Astrophysics, Beam Physics | | | | |
| Greg Brown | | | | | |
| Cody Raskin | | | | | |
| Isaac Tamblyn | nanoscience, physics, deep learning, artificial intelligence | | 2012 | 2012 | Nir Goldman (post-doc) |
| Edward Teller | Particle Theory | | | | |
| Lorin X. Benedict | condensed matter physics | | | | Heather D. Whitley (collaborator) |
| Daniel L. Farber | Geology, Geophysics | | | 1994 | Quentin Williams (grad student) |
| Harry Brian Radousky | Energy Harvesting Technologies, Laser Damage in Optical materials | | | | |
| George Frederick Chapline | | | | | |
| Roger Elwood Batzel | nuclear chemistry | | | | |
| George Hudson Gilmer | Atomistic modeling of nanowire formation using vapor/solid and vapor/ liquid/solid crystal growth. | | | | |
| Lawrence D. Cloutman | | | | | |
| David Alan Brown | nuclear physics | | | | |
| John Paul Holdren | Aerospace engineering, theoretical plasma physics | | | | |
| Christopher P. J. Barty | Laser Science and Technology | | | | |
| James Hayden Thomas | Nuclear Physics, Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics, Double Beta Decay, Gravitational Physics (Exp.) | | | | |
| Jane Pratt | Stellar Astrophysics, Computational Plasma Physics, MHD | | | | |
| Donald Elwood Maxwell | | | | | |
| Ronnie Shepherd | Plasma physics | | | | |
| Ed Von Marley | Plasma physics, spectroscopy, diagnostics, laser systems | | | | |
| Andrew McKelvey | | | | | |
| Jeffrey B Parker | | | | | |
| Kumar S. Raman | Condensed Matter Physics | Physics | 2005 | 2007 | Eduardo Hector Fradkin (post-doc) |
| Suzanne J. M. Ali | High pressure physics, dynamic compression, optical diagnostics | | | | |
| Paul E. Grabowski | Plasma physics, atomic physics, density functional theory, Theoretical Astrophysics | | | | |
| Stephen B. Libby | Theoretical physics, atomic physics, condensed matter, elementary particle physics, quantum sensing, quantum computing | Physics Physics | 1989 | 2017 | Abraham Szöke (collaborator), Edward Teller (collaborator) |
| Alfredo A. Correa | Electron and Ion Dynamics of Warm Dense Matter | Quantum Simulations Group | 2002 | 2008 | Giulia Galli (grad student) |
| Adam Bernstein | | | | | |
| Daine L. Danielson | Theoretical physics, Particle physics, High energy physics, Theory Physics | Rare Event Detection Group | 2015 | 2018 | Adam Bernstein (research assistant) |
| Robert A. Managan | | | | | |