Faculty History

Only those faculty who were tenured at the university or stayed for a significant length of time are included in the list.

  • 1908–1940 Giles E. Ripley, MS, Purdue University
  • 1914–1919 Bernard Brown, MS, University of Chicago
  • 1923–1926 Charles B. Crofutt, PhD, University of Iowa
  • 1923–1931 Samuel R. Parsons, PhD, University of Michigan
  • 1927–1942 Wesley M. Roberds, PhD, University of Kansas
  • 1942–1982 Paul C. Sharrah, PhD, University of Missouri
  • 1947–1966 George D. Lingelbach, BSEE, Kansas State University
  • 1949–1978 Herman M. Schwartz, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
  • 1948–1957 Zaboj V. Harvalik, ScD, University of Prague
  • 1952–1956 Berol L. Robinson, PhD, Johns Hopkins
  • 1954–1990 Raymond H. Hughes, PhD, University of Wisconsin
  • 1959–1988 Otto H. Zinke, PhD, Washington University
  • 1958–1972 Glen T. Clayton, PhD, University of Missouri
  • 1961–1983 Stephen M. Day, PhD, Rice University
  • 1962–1970 Charles E. Jones, PhD, Texas A&M
  • 1964–1999 Arthur S. Hobson, PhD, Kansas State University
  • 1966–1997 Charles B. Richardson, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
  • 1966–1989 Richard J. Anderson, PhD, University of Oklahoma
  • 1969–2000 Fui T. Chan, PhD, University of California San Diego
  • 1970–2011 Michael Lieber, PhD, Harvard University
  • 1972–1980 Carol J. Webb, Astronomy, University of Texas
  • 1972–2014 Donald O. Pederson, PhD, Rice University
  • 1975–2026 Gregory J. Salamo, PhD, City University of New York
  • 1978–2010 Rajendra Gupta, PhD, Boston University
  • 1980–2015 Claud H. Lacy, PhD (Astronomy), University of Texas
  • 1982–Present Surendra P. Singh, PhD, University of Rochester
  • 1983–1989 Howard J. Carmichael, PhD, University of Waikato, New Zealand
  • 1985–2026 William G. Harter, PhD, University of California Irvine
  • 1986–1989 Allen M. Hermann, PhD, Texas A.&M.
  • 1989–1999 Zhengzhi Sheng, PhD (Chemistry), University of Arkansas
  • 1989–Present Reeta Vyas, PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • 1990–Present Julio Gea-Banacloche, PhD, University of New Mexico
  • 1990–2025 Min Xiao, PhD, University of Texas Austin
  • 1992–Present William F. Oliver III, PhD, University of Colorado
  • 1994–2014 Gay B. Stewart, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 1996–Present Paul M. Thibado, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
  • 1998–2014 Kenneth G. Vickers, MS, University of Arkansas
  • 1999–Present Laurent Bellaiche, PhD, University of Paris VI
  • 2002–Present Huaxiang Fu, PhD, Fudan University
  • 2002–Present Jiali Li, PhD, City University of New York
  • 2006–2016 Jacques Tchakhalian, PhD, University of British Columbia
  • 2007–Present Julia Kennefick, PhD, Caltech
  • 2008–Present Daniel Kennefick, PhD, Caltech
  • 2011–Present Salvador Barraza-Lopez, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2012–Present Woodrow Shew, PhD, University of Maryland College Park
  • 2013–Present Pradeep Kumar, PhD, Boston University
  • 2015–Present Hugh Churchill, PhD, Harvard University
  • 2015–Present Bret Lehmer, PhD, Pennsylvania State University
  • 2016–Present Yong Wang, PhD, University of California Los Angeles
  • 2017–Present Jin Hu, PhD, Tulane University
  • 2019–Present Hiro Nakamura, PhD, University of Tokyo