September 1979 - August 2023
- Laurence F. Abbott
Brandeis University
(September 1995 -- August 1998) - Elihu Abrahams (*deceased)
Rutgers University
(September 1982 -- August 1985) - Eric G. Adelberger
University of Washington
(September 1996 -- August 1999) - Philip Anderson (*deceased)
Princeton University
(September 1982 -- August 1985) - Nima Arkani-Hamed
IAS, Princeton
(September 2021 -- August 2024) - Philip Armitage
University of Colorado (now at SUNY Stony Brook)
(September 1, 2011 -- August 31, 2014) - Lloyd Armstrong (past Chairperson: 1994-1995)
University of Southern California
(September 1992 -- August 1996) - Jonathan Arons
Perimeter Institute
(September 1988 -- August 1991) - Asimina Arvanitaki
University of California, Berkeley
(September 2022 -- August 2025) - Thomas Banks
Rutgers University
(September 1997 -- August 2000) - James Bardeen (*deceased)
University of Washington
(September 1981 -- August 1984) - Gordon Baym
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(September 1979 -- August 1983) - Rachel Bean
Cornell University
(September 2014 -- August 2017) - Malcolm Beasley
Stanford University
(September 1990 -- August 1993) - Mitchell Craig Begelman
JILA - University of Colorado
(September 1, 2008 -- August 31, 2011) - R. Stephen Berry (*deceased)
University of Chicago
(September 1989 -- August 1992) - George Bertsch
Michigan State University
(September 1979 -- August 1981) - Hans Bethe (*deceased)
Cornell University
(September 1981 -- August 1984) - William Bialek (past Chairperson: 2005-2006)
Princeton University
(September 1, 2004 -- August 31, 2008) - James D. Bjorken
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
(September 1983 -- September 1986) - Roger Blandford
California Institute of Technology (now at Stanford University)
(September 1985 -- August 1988) - Richard Blankenbecler (past Chairperson: 1982-1983)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(September 1979 -- August 1984) - Immanuel Bloch
Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
(September 2013 -- August 2016) - Eberhard Bodenschatz (past Chairperson: 2010-2011)
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics
(September 2008 -- August 2012) - J. Richard Bond
Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA)
(September 2006 -- August 2009) - David Boulware (past Chairperson: 1989-1990)
University of Washington
(September 1987 -- August 1991) - Patrick Brady
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
(September 2020 -- August 2023) - Michael Brenner
Harvard University
(September 2006 -- August 2009) - Adam Burrows (past Chairperson: 2006-2007)
Princeton University
(September 2004 -- August 2008) - Alessandra Buonanno
University of Maryland (now at Max Planck Institute - Potsdam)
(September 2010 -- August 2013) - Curtis Callan
Princeton University
(September 1990 -- August 1993) - Marcela S. Carena (past Chairperson: 2011-2012)
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
(September 1, 2009 - August 31, 2013) - David Ceperley
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(September 1991 -- August 1994) - Paul Chaikin
Princeton University (now at NYU)
(September 1993 -- August 1996) - Bulbul Chakraborty (past Chairperson: 2014-2015)
Brandeis University
(September 2012 -- August 2016) - S. Chandrasekhar (*deceased)
University of Chicago
(September 1979 -- August 1981) - Sterling Colgate (*deceased)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
(September 1982 -- August 1985) - Susan Coppersmith (past Chairperson: 1999-2000)
James Franck/Univ. of Chicago
(Sepember 1997 -- August 2001) - J. M. Cornwall (past Chairperson: 1981-1982)
University of California, Los Angeles
(September 1979 -- August 1983) - Leticia Cugliandolo
Sorbonne University
(September 2020 -- August 2023) - Mirjam Cvetic (past Chairperson: 2009-2010)
University of Pennsylvania
(September 2007 -- August 2011) - Alexander Dalgarno (*deceased)
Harvard University
(September 1985 -- August 1988) - Roger Dashen (*deceased)
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
(September 1979 -- August 1983) - Sankar Das Sarma (past Chairperson: 2008-2009)
University of Maryland
(September 2006 -- August 2010) - Marc Davis
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1994 -- August 1995) - John Dawson (*deceased)
University of California, Los Angeles
(September 1984 -- August 1987) - Sally Dawson
Brookhaven National Laboratory
(September 2006 -- August 2009) - Stanley Deser (past Chairperson: 1993-1994; *deceased)
Brandeis University
(September 1991 -- August 1995) - Savas Dimopoulos
Stanford University
(September 2007 -- August 2010) - Michael Dine
University of California, Santa Cruz
(September 2000 -- August 2003) - Lance Dixon (past Co-Chairperson: 2019-2020)
Stanford University/SLAC
(September 2017 -- August 2021) - Sebastian Doniach
Stanford University
(September 1986 -- August 1989) - Michael R. Douglas
State University of New York
(September 2011 -- August 2013) - Robert C. Dynes
University of California, San Diego
(September 1985 -- August 1988) - Douglas M. Eardley
Harvard University (now at UC Santa Barbara)
(September 1979 -- August 1983) - Joseph Eberly
University of Rochester
(September 1999 -- August 2002) - James P. Eisenstein
California Institute of Technology
(September 2009 -- August 2012) - Michael Elowitz
California Institute of Technology
(September 2009 -- August 2012) - Adrienne Fairhall (Past Co-Chairperson: 2013-2014)
University of Washington
(September 2011 -- August 2015) - Leo Falicov (*deceased)
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1993 -- August 1995) - Mitchell Feigenbaum (*deceased)
Rockefeller University
(September 1985 -- August 1988) - Jonathan L. Feng (past Co-Chairperson: 2012-2013)
University of California, Irvine
(September 2010 -- August 2014) - Herman Feshbach (*deceased)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 1979 -- August 1982) - Ila Fiete (past Co-Chairperson: 2017-2018)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 2015 -- August 2019) - Daniel Fisher (past Chairperson: 1990-1991)
Harvard University (now at Stanford University)
(September 1988 -- August 1992) - Michael Fisher (*deceased)
University of Maryland
(September 1992 -- August 1995) - Eanna Flanagan
Cornell University
(September 2007 -- August 2010) - Katherine Freese
University of Michigan
(September 2000 -- August 2003) - Edward A. Frieman (*deceased)
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
(September 1986 -- August 1989) - Mary K. Gaillard
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1985 -- August 1988) - Sylvester J. Gates
University of Maryland
(September 2000 -- August 2003) - Murray Gell-Mann (*deceased)
California Institute of Technology
(September 1979 -- August 1981) - Frederick J. Gilman
University of Texas, Austin
(September 1988 -- August 1991) - Steven M. Girvin (past Chairperson: 1997-1998)
Indiana University (now at Yale)
(September 1995 -- August 1999) - Peter Goldreich
Caltech
(September 1993 -- August 1996) - Jeremy Goodman
Princeton
(September 1998 -- August 2001) - Mark Goulian
University of Pennsylvania
(September 2006 -- August 2009) - John M. Greene
General Atomic Technologies, Inc.
(September 1988 -- August 1991) - Laura H. Greene
University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign
(September 2002 -- August 2005) - Gary Grest
Sandia National Laboratory
(September 2000 -- August 2003) - Robert B. Griffiths
Carnegie-Mellon University
(September 1987 -- August 1990) - David Gross (past Chairperson: 1985-1986)
Princeton University (now at KITP)
(September 1983 -- August 1987) - Lawrence J. Hall
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
(September 2004 -- August 2007) - Bertrand Halperin (past Chairperson: 1987-1988)
Harvard University
(September 1985 -- August 1989) - James B. Hartle (*deceased)
University of California, Santa Barbara
(September 1979 -- August 1981) - Jeffrey Harvey (past Chairperson: 1995-1996)
Enricro Fermi Institute
(September 1993 -- August 1997) - Matt Hastings
UW/Microsoft
(September 2015 -- August 2018) - Wick Haxton
University of Washington
(September 1993 -- August 1996) - Eric Heller
Harvard University
(September 1994 -- August 1997) - Lars Hernquist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(September 1999 -- August 2002) - JoAnne Hewett
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
(September 2013 -- August 2016) - Pierre Hohenberg (past Chairperson: 1991-1992, *deceased)
Yale University
(September 1989 -- August 1994) - John Hopfield
California Institute of Technology
(September 1983 -- August 1986) - Veronika Hubeny (past Co-Chairperson: 2018-2019)
University of California, Davis
(September 2016 -- August 2020) - Terence Hwa
UCSD
(September 2003 -- August 2006) - Francesco Iachello
Yale University
(September 1989 -- August 1992) - Theodore A. Jacobson
University of Maryland
(September 2001 -- August 2004) - Craig James Hogan
University of Chicago
(September 2009 -- August 2012) - Barbara Jones
IBM Almaden Research Center
(September 1999 -- August 2002) - Shamit Kachru
Stanford University
(September 2014 -- August 2017) - Leo Kadanoff (*deceased)
University of Chicago
(September 1979 -- August 1981) - Catherine Kallin
McMaster University
(September 1996 -- August 1999) - Randall Kamien
University of Pennsylvania
(September 2009 -- August 2012) - Mehran Kardar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 2017 -- August 2020) - Charles Kane
University of Pennsylvania
(September 2013 -- August 2017) - Hugh Kelly (*deceased)
J.W. Beams Laboratory of Physics
(September 1988 -- August 1991) - Charles Kennel
University of California, Los Angeles
(September 1987 -- August 1990) - Eun-Ah Kim (past Chairperson: 2024-2025)
Cornell University
(September 2021 -- August 2025) - Steven Kivelson
Stanford University
(September 2006 -- August 2009) - Igor Klebanov (past Co-Chairperson: 2010-2011)
Princeton University
(September 2008 -- August 2012) - Juna Kollmeier (past Co-Chairperson: 2021-2022)
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science
(September 2019 -- August 2023) - Jané Kondev
Brandeis University
(September 2018 -- August 2021) - Steve E. Koonin (past Chairperson: 1988-1989)
California Institute for Technology
(September 1986 -- August 1990) - Andrey Kravtsov
U. Chicago
(September 2012 -- August 2015) - Martin Kruskal (*deceased)
Princeton University
(September 1981 -- August 1984) - Paul Kushner (past Chairperson: 2020-2021)
University of Toronto
(September 2018 -- August 2022) - Neal Lane
Rice University
(September 2004 -- August 2007) - Joel Lebowitz
Rutgers University
(September 1984 -- August 1987) - Patrick Lee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 1992 -- August 1995) - Luis Lehner (past Chairperson: 2018-2019)
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
(September 2016 -- August 2020) - G. Peter LePage
Cornell University
(September 1995 -- August 1998) - Anthony Leggett
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
(September 1983 -- August 1986) - Stanislas Leibler
The Rockefeller University
(September 2000 -- August 2003) - Kathryn Levin
University of Chicago
(September 1991 -- August 1994) - Andrea J. Liu
University of Pennsylvania
(September 2003 -- August 2006) - Thomas C. Lubensky
University of Pennsylvania
(September 1997 -- August 2000) - Mikhail Lukin
Harvard University
(September 2008 -- August 2011) - Joseph D. Lykken
Fermi National Accelerator Lab
(September 2003 -- August 2006) - John P. McTague (*deceased)
Ford Motor Co.
(September 1996 -- August 1999) - Allan H. MacDonald
University of Texas, Austin
(September 2003 -- August 2006) - Piero Madau
UCSC
(September 2003 -- August 2006) - Gudrun Magnusdottir
UC Irvine
(September 2021 -- August 2024) - Juan M. Maldacena
Institute for Advanced Study
(September 2017 -- August 2020) - Michael Manga
UC Berkeley
(September 2012 -- August 2015) - Cristina Marchetti (past Chairperson: 2003-2004)
Syracuse University (now at UC Santa Barbara)
(September 2002 -- August 2005) - John Bradley Marston (past Chairperson: 2012-2013)
Brown University
(September 2010 -- August 2014) - Paul Martin (past Chairperson: 1979-1980, *deceased)
Harvard University
(September 1979 -- August 1983) - William Marciano
Brookhaven National Laboratory
(September 1992 -- August 1995) - Christopher McKee
University of California, Berkeley
(September 2002 -- August 2005) - David Mermin
Cornell University
(September 1986 -- August 1989) - Pierre Meystre
University of Arizona
(September 2002 -- August 2005) - Andrew Millis (past Chairperson: 2001-2002)
Rutgers University (now at Columbia)
(September 1999 -- August 2003) - Peter Milonni
Los Alamos National Lab
(September 1996 -- August 1999) - Shiraz Minwalla
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
(September 2020 -- August 2023) - Ernest Moniz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 1987 -- August 1990) - Gregory Moore
Yale University
(September 1994 -- August 1997) - Joel Moore (past Chairperson: 2019-2020)
University of California, Berkeley
(September 2017 -- August 2021) - Ben Mottelson (*deceased)
NORDITA
(September 1984 -- August 1987) - Alfred Mueller
Columbia University
(September 1986 -- August 1989) - Richard Muller
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1982 -- August 1985) - Margaret Murnane
JILA
(September 2006 -- August 2009) - Venkatesh Murthy
Harvard University
(September 2019 -- August 2022) - Robert Myers (past Co-Chairperson: 2014-2015)
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
(September 2012 -- August 2016) - Ramesh Narayan (past Chairperson: 1996-1997)
Harvard University
(September 1994 -- August 1998) - Michael Nauenberg (*deceased)
University of California, Santa Cruz
(September 1979 -- August 1982) - John W. Negele (past Chairperson: 1984-1985)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 1982 -- August 1986) - Ann Nelson (*deceased)
University of Washington
(September 1995 -- August 1998) - David Nelson
Harvard University
(September 1994 -- August 1997) - Angela V. Olinto
University of Chicago
(September 2011 -- August 2014) - Peter Olson
Johns Hopkins University
(September 2015 -- August 2018) - Thomas O'Neil
University of California, San Diego
(September 1983 -- August 1986) - Hirosi Ooguri
Caltech
(September 2005 -- August 2008) - Eve Ostriker
University of Maryland (now at Princeton University)
(September 2008 -- August 2011) - Rosalba Perna
Stony Brook University
(September 2018 -- August 2021) - Michael Peskin (past Chairperson: 2000-2001)
SLAC
(September 1998 -- August 2002) - Rob Phillips
Caltech
(September 2012 -- August 2015) - Philip Wirth Phillips (past Co-Chairperson: 2011-2012)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(September 2009 -- August 2013) - E. Sterl Phinney
California Institute of Technology
(September 1990 -- August 1993) - Alexander Pines
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1992 -- August 1995) - David Pines (*deceased)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(September 1979 -- August 1982) - John Preskill (past Chairperson: 2013-2014)
Caltech
(September 2011 -- August 2015) - William Press (past Chairperson: 1986-1987)
Harvard College Observatory
(September 1984 -- August 1988) - Frans Pretorius
Princeton University
(September 2013 -- August 2016) - Jorge Pullin
Louisiana State University
(September 2004 -- August 2007) - Eliot Quataert
Princeton University
(September 2021 -- August 2024) - Helen Quinn (past Chairperson: 1983-1984)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(September 1981 -- August 1985) - Leo Radzihovsky
University of Colorado
(September 2013 -- August 2017) - Lisa Randall
MIT (now at Harvard)
(September 1998 -- August 2001) - Frederic A. Rasio (past Chairperson: 2016-2017)
Northwestern University
(September 2015 -- August 2018) - Ana Maria Rey (past Co-Chairperson: 2020-2021)
University of Colorado
(September 2018 -- August 2022) - Dima Rinberg
New York University
(September 2022 -- August 2025) - Mark Robbins (past Chairperson: 2007-2008, *deceased)
Johns Hopkins University
(September 2005 -- August 2009) - Jonathan Rosner
University of Chicago
(September 1991 -- August 1994) - Malvin Ruderman
Columbia University
(September 1979 -- August 1982) - Subir Sachdev (past Chairperson: 2004-2005)
Harvard University
(September 2002 -- August 2006) - J. R. Schrieffer (past Chairperson: 1980-1981, *deceased)
University of California, Santa Barbara
(September 1979 -- August 1982) - Ramamurti Shankar
Yale University
(September 2010 -- August 2013) - Nathan Seiberg
Institute for Advanced Study
(September 2002 -- August 2005) - Sebastian Seung
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (now at Princeton University)
(September 2008 -- August 2011) - Stephen Shenker
Rutgers University (now at Stanford University)
(September 1987 -- August 1990) - Mikhail Shifman
University of Minnesota
(September 2001-- August 2004) - Eric Siggia
Rockefeller University
(September 1997 -- August 2000) - Eva Silverstein
SLAC
(September 2004 -- August 2007) - Isadore Singer (*deceased)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(September 1982 -- August 1985) - Sara Solla
Northwestern University
(September 2005 -- August 2008) - Rachel Somerville (past Co-chairperson: 2022-23)
Flatiron Institute
(September 2020 -- August 2024) - David N. Spergel (past Chairperson: 1998-1999)
Princeton University
(September 1996 -- August 2000) - Paul Steinhardt (past Chairperson: 1992-1993)
University of Pennsylvania (now at Princeton)
(September 1990 -- September 1994) - Charles Stevens (*deceased)
The Salk Institute
(September 1998 -- August 2004) - David Stevenson
Caltech
(September 2001 -- August 2004) - James Stone
Princeton University (now at IAS)
(September 2005 -- August 2008) - Andrew Strominger (past Chairperson: 2002-2003)
Harvard University
(September 2000 -- August 2004) - Ravindra Sudan (*deceased)
Cornell University
(September 1991 -- August 1994) - Tim Tait
University of California, Irvine
(September 2019 -- August 2022) - Saul A. Teukolsky
Cornell University
(September 1995 -- August 1998) - Scott Thomas
Rutgers University
(September 2014 -- August 2017) - Kip Thorne
California Institute of Technology
(September 1979 -- August 1981) - David Thouless (*deceased)
University of Washington
(September 1989 -- August 1992) - Scott Tremaine
University of Toronto (now at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
(September 1988 -- August 1991) - Nandini Trivedi
The Ohio State University
(September 1, 2016 -- August 31, 2019) - Mark Trodden
University of Pennsylvania
(September 1, 2017 -- August 31, 2020) - Sandra M. Troian
California Institute of Technology
(September 2007 -- August 2010) - Cumrum Vafa
Harvard University
(September 1997 -- August 2000) - Roser Valentí (past Chairperson: 2021-2022)
Goethe University Frankfort
(September 2019 -- August 2023) - Pedro Vieira
Perimeteter Institute for Theoretical Physics
(September 2020 -- August 2023) - Ashvin Vishwanath (past Co-Chairperson: 2024-2025)
Harvard University
(September 2022 -- August 2025) - Vincenzo Vitelli
University of Chicago
(September 2022 -- August 2025) - Robert Wald
Fermi Inst./Univ. of Chicago
(September 1998 -- August 2001) - J. Dirk Walecka
CEBAF, Newport News, VA
(September 1990 -- August 1993) - Aleksandra Walczak (past Chairperson: 2022-2023)
École Normale Supérieure
(September 2020 -- August 2024) - Lian-Tao Wang
University of Chicago
(September 1, 2016 -- August 31, 2019) - Risa Wechsler (past Chairperson: 2017-2018)
Stanford University
(September 1, 2015 -- August 31, 2019) - Steven Weinberg (*deceased)
University of Texas, Austin
(September 1983 -- August 1986) - K. Birgitta Whaley (past Chairperson: 2016-2017)
University of California, Berkeley
(September 2015 -- August 2018) - Steven White
University of California, Irvine
(September 2018 -- August 2021) - Carl Wieman
University of Colorado
(September 1999 -- August 2002) - Frank Wilczek
Institute for Advanced Studies
(September 1989 -- August 1992) - Ned Wingreen
Princeton University
(September 1, 2016 -- August 31, 2019) - Mark Wise
California Institute of Technology
(September 1992 -- August 1995) - Thomas Witten
University of Chicago
(September 1994 -- August 1997) - Stanford Woosley
University of California, Santa Cruz
(September 1991 -- August 1994) - Alexandra Zidovska
New York University
(September 2022 -- August 2025) - Peter Zoller
Inst. für Theoretische Physik
(September 2005 -- August 2008) - Bruno Zumino (*deceased)
University of California, Berkeley
(September 1984 -- August 1987) - Ellen G. Zweibel
University of Colorado (now at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
(September 1996 -- August 1999)