| Ronald S. Pindak | | | | | |
| Peter Eisenberger | | | | | |
| Kensall D. Wise | | | | | |
| Martin Koch | | | 1995 | 1997 | Jagdeep Shah (post-doc) |
| Jagdeep Shah | | | | | |
| James Power Gordon | | | | | |
| Orson L. Anderson | | | | | |
| Peter B Littlewood | | | | | |
| Sidney Millman | | | | | |
| John Bardeen | | | | | |
| Robert Woodrow Wilson | | | | | |
| George Elwood Smith | | | | | |
| Willard Sterling Boyle | | | | | |
| Horst L. Störmer | | | | | |
| Walter Houser Brattain | | | | | |
| Robert Lee Willett | | | | | |
| William B. Shockley | | | | | |
| Dai Sik Kim | | | 1991 | 1993 | Jagdeep Shah (post-doc) |
| John M. Rowell | | | | | |
| Julia Mae Phillips | | | | | |
| Frank Baldwin Jewett | | | | | |
| Alan G. Chynoweth | | | | | |
| Steven Chu | | | | | |
| Joseph Francis Dillon | | | | | |
| Vincent Jaccarino | | | | | |
| Alfred Leitenstorfer | | | 1997 | 1998 | Jagdeep Shah (post-doc), Martin C. Nuss (post-doc) |
| Sérgio Pereira da Silva Porto | | | | | |
| John Larry Kelly, Jr. | | | | | |
| Michael Duryea Williams | | | | 1978 | David Erik Aspnes (research assistant) |
| Mara Prentiss | AMO physics, biophysics | | 1986 | 1988 | Steven Chu (post-doc) |
| James Brown Fisk | Applied physics | | | 1939 | Mervin Joe Kelly (research scientist), Ralph Bown (research scientist) |
| Leo Hollberg | Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | | | | Steven Chu (post-doc) |
| George Hudson Gilmer | Atomistic modeling of nanowire formation using vapor/solid and vapor/ liquid/solid crystal growth. | | | | |
| George Feher | Biophysics | | | | |
| Robert G. Shulman | Biophysics | | | 1979 | John J. Hopfield (collaborator) |
| William E. Blumberg | biophysics, magnetic resonance | | | | Robert G. Shulman (collaborator) |
| Dennis Ritchie | C, UNIX, Plan 9 (from Bell Labs) | | | | |
| C. Kumar N. Patel | CO2 laser, Experimental Condensed Matter | | | | |
| A. Paul Alivisatos | colloidal inorganic nanocrystals | | | 1988 | Louis E. Brus (post-doc) |
| William Lauchlin McMillan | condensed matter physics | | 1964 | 1966 | Philip Warren Anderson (post-doc) |
| Daniel C. Tsui | condensed matter physics | | | | |
| Thomas Maurice Rice | Condensed Matter Physics | | | | |
| Donald Robert Hamann | Condensed matter physics | | | | |
| Theodore Alan Fulton | Condensed matter physics | | | | |
| Paul A Fleury | Condensed matter physics | | | | |
| Gerald J. Dolan | Condensed matter physics | | 1976 | 1977 | Theodore Alan Fulton (post-doc) |
| William Frank Brinkman | Condensed Matter Physics | | | | |
| Gabriel Aeppli | Condensed Matter Physics | | | | |
| Raymond Ashoori | Condensed Matter Physics | 11117 Semiconductor Research | 1990 | 1992 | Horst L. Störmer (post-doc) |
| James Valles | condensed matter physics, biophysics | | | | Robert C. Dynes (post-doc) |
| Peter Abbamonte | Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry | | | | Philip M Platzman (grad student) |
| Robert C. Dynes | Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry | | | | |
| Arjun G. Yodh | condensed matter physics, medical and biophysics, the optical sciences | | 1987 | 1988 | Steven Chu (post-doc), Harry W. K. Tom (post-doc) |
| Myriam P. Sarachik | Condensed Matter Physics, Molecular Physics, Electricity and Magnetism Physics | | 1962 | 1964 | Theodore H. Geballe (post-doc) |
| Pierre Claude Hohenberg | Condensed matter physics, statistical physics, non-equilibrium phenomena, foundations of quantum mechanics and philosophy of science | | | | |
| Clinton Joseph Davisson | crystallography, electromagnetism | | | | |
| J. Anthony Tyson | dark matter distribution, gravitational lens effects, cosmic shear, the nature of dark energy, and instrumentation for optical astronomy | | | | |
| Peter Adalbert Wolff | Diluted magnetic semiconductors; optical properties of subwavelength hole arrays. | | | | |
| David Erik Aspnes | Electronic Materials, Optics | | | | |
| James P. (Jim) Eisenstein | experimental condensed-matter physics | | | | |
| Stanley Geschwind | experimetal condensed matter physics, light scattering in solids, electron paramagnetic resonance, optical spectroscopy and inelastic light scattering, magnetic linear chains | | | | |
| George H. Mealy | Finite State Machines, Synthesis, Implementation | | | | |
| Edward F. Moore | Finite State Machines, Synthesis, Implementation | | | | |
| Woowon Kang | Fluid and Plasma Physics | | 1992 | 1994 | Horst L. Störmer (post-doc) |
| Harold Warren Lewis | high energy physics | | | | |
| Aiyasami Jayaraman | High-Pressure Physics | | | | |
| Arthur Leonard Schawlow | Laser Physics | | | | |
| Arthur Ashkin | Laser trapping, solar power | | | | |
| Patricia E. Cladis | liquid crystals | | | | |
| Douglas D. Osheroff | low temperatures | | | | |
| Young Bae Kim | low-temperature physics, cryogenic engineering, superconductivity | | | | |
| Philip Warren Anderson | magnetic properties of matter | | | | |
| Truman R. Brown | Magnetic resonance applications | | | 1979 | Robert G. Shulman (collaborator) |
| Eric David Isaacs | magnetism, correlated electronic systems | | | | |
| Arthur C. Gossard | Materials Science Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics | | | | |
| David J. Bishop | MEMS/NEMS, Nanotechnology, Quantum Fluids, Superconductivity, MEMS | | | | |
| Rudolf Kompfner | microwave amplifiers, klystrons, traveling-wave tube | | | | |
| Charles Hard Townes | microwave physics, masers and lasers | | | | |
| John J. Hopfield | Modelling | | | | |
| Adalbert Mayer-Heinricy | Molecular structure and function of hemoglobin | | 1972 | 1974 | Robert G. Shulman (post-doc) |
| Shlomo Alexander | NMR, superconductors, condensed matter | | | 1962 | Philip Warren Anderson (post-doc) |
| Guenter Ahlers | non-linear systems | | | | |
| Joseph Anthony Giordmaine | nonlinear optics | | | | |
| Gabriel Weinreich | nonlinear optics, musical physics | | | | |
| Melvin Lax | Optics Physics | | | | |
| Chris Xu | Optics Physics, Medical Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering | | | | Winfried Denk (post-doc) |
| Gordon Albert Thomas | optics, biophysics | | | | |
| Herbert Eugene Ives | optics, photography, imaging, telephotography, television | | | | |
| Juerg Leuthold | Optics, Plasmonics, THz, Electromagnetic Fields, Communications | | | | |
| Neville V. Smith | photoemission spectroscopy | | | | |
| Jungsang Kim | Photonics, Micro-electronic mechanical machines, Sensing and Sensor Systems, Semiconductors, Quantum Information, Integrated Nanoscale Systems | | 1999 | 2000 | David J. Bishop (post-doc) |
| Karl Kelchner Darrow | Physics, science writer | | | | |
| Solomon J. Buchsbaum | Plasma physics | | | | |
| Michael Rubinstein | Polymer Theory and Computer Simulations | | 1983 | 1985 | Eugene Helfand (post-doc) |
| James C. Phillips | Pseudopotential theory; electronic structure of solids, especially semiconductors; structure and properties and microscopic theories of glasses; metal-insulation transitions; microscopic theories of cuprate (high-Tc) superconductivity. | | 1956 | 1958 | W. Conyers Herring (post-doc) |
| Moungi G. Bawendi | quantum dots | | 1988 | 1990 | Louis E. Brus (post-doc) |
| Robert B. Laughlin | Quantum Hall effect | | | 1980 | Mark J. Cardillo (post-doc) |
| Ralph Bown | radio broadcasting, ship-to-shore communication, aircraft radios, intercontinental telephony | | | | |
| Oliver Ellsworth Buckley | radio communication | | | | |
| Philip M Platzman | scattering and low-energy physics | | | | |
| Jan Tauc | semiconductors | | | | |
| James M. Goldey | silicon transistor and integrated circuit development | | | | |
| David G. Grier | Soft matter physics | | 1989 | 1991 | Cherry A. Murray (post-doc) |
| David Gilbert Thomas | Solid State Physics | | | | |
| John Kirtland Galt | Solid state physics | | | | |
| Eugene Irving Blount | solid state physics | | | | |
| Albert McCavour Clogston | solid state physics, magnetism, and superconductivity | | | | |
| W. Conyers Herring | solid-state physics | | | | |
| Harry Suhl | statistical mechanics and critical effects in non-equilibrium systems, magnetism on macroscopic and mesoscopic length scales, reaction kinetics and non-linear dynamics | | | | |
| David A. Huse | Statistical physics, phase transitions, quantum many-body physics of ultracold atoms, many-body localization, magnetic ordering in materials and in spin models, superconductivity, out of equilibrium quantum dynamics. | | | | |
| Daniel S. Fisher | statistical physics; theoretical evolutionary biology | | | | |
| Harvey Fletcher | Stereophonic Sound | | | | |
| Homer Dupre Hagstrum | Surface Physics | | | | |
| Joel A. Appelbaum | Surface physics | | | | |
| Cherry A. Murray | surface, condensed matter and complex fluid physics | | | | |
| Andrew John Millis | Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics | | | | |
| Shirley Ann Jackson | Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics | | | | |
| Patrick A. Lee | Theoretical Physics | | | | |
| Robert Harry Kraichnan | Theoretical Physics, Theory of Fluid Turbulence, Field Theory and General Relativity | | | | |
| Premala Chandra | Theoretical Physics, Condensed Matter | 1111 Theory Group | 1984 | | Peter B Littlewood (grad student) |
| Bertrand I. Halperin | Theoretical physics: condensed matter and statistical physics | | | | |
| Mervin Joe Kelly | vacuum tubes, solid state physics | | | | |
| William G. Pfann | zone-melting, semi-conductive devices, and crystal growth techniques | | | 1945 | William B. Shockley (collaborator) |