# List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Physics)

This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences, which includes approximately 2,500 living members and 500 foreign associates of the United States National Academy of Sciences, each of whom is affiliated with one of 31 disciplinary sections. Members are listed under their primary subsection and each person's name, primary institution, and election year are given.
| Name | Institution | Year |
| Polykarp Kusch | University of Texas at Dallas | 1956 |
| Gerard 't Hooft | Utrecht University | 1984 |
| Anatole Abragam | Collège de France | 1977 |
| Elihu Abrahams | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | 1987 |
| Robert K. Adair | Yale University | 1976 |
| Eric Adelberger | University of Washington | 1994 |
| Stephen L. Adler | Institute for Advanced Study | 1975 |
| Harold Agnew | General Atomics | 1979 |
| Yakir Aharonov | University of South Carolina | 1993 |
| Guenter Ahlers | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1982 |
| Philip Warren Anderson | Princeton University | 1967 |
| Arthur Ashkin | Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies | 1996 |
| Alain Aspect | Institut d'Optique | 2008 |
| Robert Austin | Princeton University | 1999 |
| James M. Bardeen | University of Washington | 2012 |
| William Bardeen | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | 1999 |
| Barry Barish | California Institute of Technology | 2002 |
| Gordon Baym | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 1982 |
| George Benedek | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1981 |
| James Bergquist | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 2009 |
| Michael Berry | University of Bristol | 1995 |
| James Bjorken | Stanford University | 1973 |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen | University of Arizona | 1960 |
| Felix Boehm | California Institute of Technology | 1983 |
| Richard G. Brewer | International Business Machines Corporation | 1980 |
| Edouard Brezin | École Normale Supérieure | 2003 |
| Keith Brueckner | University of California, San Diego | 1969 |
| Philip Bucksbaum | University of Michigan | 2004 |
| Claudio (Teitelboim) Bunster | Center for Scientific Studies (Valdivia, Chile) | 2005 |
| Curtis Callan | Princeton University | 1989 |
| Paul Chaikin | Princeton University | 2004 |
| Owen Chamberlain | University of California, Berkeley | 1960 |
| Moses H. W. Chan | Pennsylvania State University | 2000 |
| Geoffrey Chew | University of California, Berkeley | 1962 |
| Steven Chu | University of California, Berkeley | 1993 |
| Marvin Cohen | University of California, Berkeley | 1980 |
| Claude Cohen-Tannoudji | Collège de France | 1994 |
| Eugene Commins | University of California, Berkeley | 1987 |
| Susan Coppersmith | University of New South Wales | 2009 |
| Eric Allin Cornell | University of Colorado at Boulder | 2000 |
| Alan Cottrell | University of Cambridge | 1972 |
| Ernest Courant | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 1976 |
| Ramanath Cowsik | Washington University in St. Louis | 2004 |
| H. Richard Crane | University of Michigan | 1966 |
| Edward Creutz | Bishop Museum | 1975 |
| Albert Crewe | University of Chicago | 1972 |
| James Cronin | University of Chicago | 1970 |
| J. C. Seamus Davis | Cornell University | 2010 |
| Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | Collège de France | 1987 |
| Hans Georg Dehmelt | University of Washington | 1978 |
| Stanley Deser | Brandeis University | 1994 |
| Persis Drell | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | 2010 |
| Sidney Drell | Stanford University | 1969 |
| Freeman Dyson | Institute for Advanced Study | 1964 |
| Don Eigler | Wetnose Institute for Advanced Pelagic Studies | 2012 |
| Val Logsdon Fitch | Princeton University | 1966 |
| E. Norval Fortson | University of Washington | 1998 |
| Hans Frauenfelder | Los Alamos National Laboratory | 1975 |
| Stuart Freedman | University of California, Berkeley | 2001 |
| Jerome Isaac Friedman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1992 |
| Mary Gaillard | University of California, Berkeley | 1991 |
| Richard Garwin | International Business Machines Corporation | 1966 |
| Murray Gell-Mann | Santa Fe Institute | 1960 |
| Margaret Geller | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | 1992 |
| Howard Georgi | Harvard University | 1995 |
| Vitaly Ginzburg | Russian Academy of Sciences | 1981 |
| Sheldon Glashow | Harvard University | 1977 |
| Roy J. Glauber | Harvard University | 1988 |
| Marvin L. Goldberger | University of California, San Diego | 1963 |
| Gerson Goldhaber | University of California, Berkeley | 1977 |
| Jerry Gollub | Haverford College | 1993 |
| Lev Gor'kov | Florida State University | 2005 |
| Kenneth Greisen | Cornell University | 1974 |
| David Gross | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1986 |
| Alan Guth | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1989 |
| Martin Gutzwiller | International Business Machines Corporation | 1992 |
| Willy Haeberli | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 2002 |
| Theodor Haensch | Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics | 2001 |
| Maura Hagan | Utah State University | 2019 |
| Erwin Hahn | University of California, Berkeley | 1972 |
| John L. Hall | University of Colorado at Boulder | 1984 |
| Bertrand Halperin | Harvard University | 1982 |
| William Happer | Princeton University | 1996 |
| Serge Haroche | Collège de France | 2010 |
| James Hartle | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1991 |
| Jeffrey A. Harvey | University of Chicago | 2014 |
| Wick Haxton | University of Washington | 1999 |
| Ernest M. Henley | University of Washington | 1979 |
| W. Conyers Herring | Stanford University | 1968 |
| Pierre Hohenberg | New York University | 1989 |
| John Hopfield | Princeton University | 1973 |
| Gary Horowitz | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2010 |
| Barbara Jacak | Stony Brook University | 2009 |
| Roman Jackiw | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1998 |
| J. D. Jackson | University of California, Berkeley | 1990 |
| Ali Javan | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1974 |
| Leo Kadanoff | University of Chicago | 1978 |
| David B. Kaplan | University of Washington | 2013 |
| Wolfgang Ketterle | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2002 |
| H. Jeffrey Kimble | California Institute of Technology | 2002 |
| Toichiro Kinoshita | Cornell University | 1991 |
| Charles Kittel | University of California, Berkeley | 1957 |
| Steven Kivelson | Stanford University | 2010 |
| Daniel Kleppner | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1986 |
| Walter Kohn | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1969 |
| Jun Kondo | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology | 2009 |
| Steven Koonin | U.S. Department of Energy | 2010 |
| William Kraushaar | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1973 |
| Robert B. Laughlin | Stanford University | 1994 |
| Benjamin Lax | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1969 |
| Leon M. Lederman | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | 1965 |
| David Lee | Cornell University | 1991 |
| Tsung-Dao Lee | Columbia University | 1964 |
| Anthony James Leggett | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 1997 |
| Allan MacDonald | The University of Texas at Austin | 2010 |
| Peter Mansfield | University of Nottingham | 2009 |
| Paul Martin | Harvard University | 1979 |
| John C. Mather | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 1997 |
| Rudolf Mössbauer | Technical University of Munich | 1978 |
| Ben Roy Mottelson | Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics | 1973 |
| Margaret Murnane | University of Colorado at Boulder | 2004 |
| Ann Nelson | University of Washington | 2012 |
| David Nygren | University of California, Berkeley | 2000 |
| Nai Phuan Ong | Princeton University | 2012 |
| José Onuchic | Rice University | 2006 |
| Douglas D. Osheroff | Stanford University | 1987 |
| Albert Overhauser | Purdue University | 1976 |
| Roger Penrose | University of Oxford | 1998 |
| Saul Perlmutter | University of California, Berkeley | 2002 |
| William Daniel Phillips | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 1997 |
| David Pines | Los Alamos National Laboratory | 1973 |
| Robert Otto Pohl | Cornell University | 1999 |
| Alexander Polyakov | Princeton University | 2005 |
| Robert Pound | Harvard University | 1961 |
| Charles Y. Prescott | Stanford University | 2001 |
| John Preskill | California Institute of Technology | 2014 |
| David E. Pritchard | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1999 |
| Helen Quinn | Stanford University | 2003 |
| Karin M. Rabe | Rutgers University | 2013 |
| Lisa Randall | Harvard University | 2008 |
| John Reppy | Cornell University | 1988 |
| Paul L. Richards | University of California, Berkeley | 1985 |
| Robert Coleman Richardson | Cornell University | 1986 |
| Burton Richter | Stanford University | 1977 |
| R. G. Hamish Robertson | University of Washington | 2004 |
| Heinrich Rohrer | International Business Machines Corporation | 1988 |
| Carlo Rubbia | European Organization for Nuclear Research | 1987 |
| Malvin Ruderman | Columbia University | 1972 |
| David Ruelle | Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques | 2002 |
| Subir Sachdev | Harvard University | 2014 |
| Nicholas P. Samios | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 1982 |
| Jack Sandweiss | Yale University | 1987 |
| Douglas Scalapino | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1991 |
| John Schiffer | Argonne National Laboratory | 1987 |
| J. Robert Schrieffer | Florida State University | 1971 |
| Melvin Schwartz | Columbia University | 1975 |
| John H. Schwarz | California Institute of Technology | 1997 |
| Frank J. Sciulli | Columbia University | 2009 |
| Frederick Seitz | Rockefeller University | 1951 |
| Andrew Sessler | University of California, Berkeley | 1990 |
| Kai Siegbahn | University of Uppsala | 1983 |
| Joseph Silk | Universite Pierre et Marie Curie | 2014 |
| Charles Slichter | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 1967 |
| Dam Thanh Son | University of Chicago | 2014 |
| Peter Sorokin | International Business Machines Corporation | 1976 |
| Paul Steinhardt | Princeton University | 1998 |
| Harry Suhl | University of California, San Diego | 1976 |
| Leonard Susskind | Stanford University | 2000 |
| David Tank | Princeton University | 2001 |
| Richard E. Taylor | Stanford University | 1993 |
| Saul Teukolsky | Cornell University | 2003 |
| Walter Thirring | University of Vienna | 1988 |
| Kip Thorne | California Institute of Technology | 1973 |
| Maury Tigner | Cornell University | 1993 |
| Samuel C. C. Ting | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1977 |
| Alvin V. Tollestrup | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | 1996 |
| Akira Tonomura | Hitachi, Ltd. | 2000 |
| George Trilling | University of California, Berkeley | 1983 |
| Michael Turner | University of Chicago | 1997 |
| Dale Van Harlingen | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 2003 |
| Martinus J. G. Veltman | University of Michigan | 2000 |
| Robert Wald | University of Chicago | 2001 |
| Kenneth Watson | University of California, San Diego | 1974 |
| Steven Weinberg | University of Texas at Austin | 1972 |
| Rainer Weiss | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2000 |
| Carl Wieman | University of Colorado at Boulder | 1995 |
| Arthur Wightman | Princeton University | 1970 |
| Frank Wilczek | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1990 |
| Clifford Will | Washington University in St. Louis | 2007 |
| David Wineland | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 1992 |
| Mark B. Wise | California Institute of Technology | 2007 |
| Michael Witherell | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | 1998 |
| Edward Witten | Institute for Advanced Study | 1988 |
| Lincoln Wolfenstein | Carnegie Mellon University | 1978 |
| Stanford E. Woosley | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2006 |
| Chien-Shiung Wu | Columbia University | 1958 |
| Chen Ning Yang | State University of New York at Stony Brook | 1965 |
| Guangzhao Zhou | China Association for Science and Technology | 1987 |
| Bruno Zumino | University of California, Berkeley | 1985 |
| George Zweig | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1996 |
| Leon Balents | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2019 |
| Michael Dine | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2019 |
| Roger W. Falcone | University of California, Berkeley | 2019 |
| Chris H. Greene | Purdue University | 2019 |
| Marc Kamionkowski | Johns Hopkins University | 2019 |
| Michal Lipson | Columbia University | 2019 |
| Bernard F. Schutz | Cardiff University | 2019 |
| Amir Yacoby | Harvard University | 2019 |
| Thomas Banks | Rutgers | 2023 |
| Michel Devoret | Yale University | 2023 |
| Glennys Farrar | New York University | 2023 |
| Paul Julienne | University of Maryland, College Park | 2023 |
| John Tranquada | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 2023 |
| Michelle D. Wang | Cornell University | 2023 |
| Zvi Bern | University of California, Los Angeles | 2024 |
| Noah Berrah | University of Connecticut | 2024 |
| David DeMille | Johns Hopkins University | 2024 |
| Bonnie Fleming | University of Chicago | 2024 |
| Francis Halzen | University of Wisconsin, Madison | 2024 |
| Chen-Yu Liu | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 2024 |
| Senthil Todadri | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2024 |
| Wojciech H. Zurek | Los Alamos National Laboratory | 2024 |