| Professors |
| Frank T. Avignone III, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1965, Distinguished Professor and Carolina Professor of Physics and Astronomy |
| Richard J. Creswick, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981 |
| Timir Datta, Ph.D., Tulane University, 1979 |
| Chaden Djalali, Ph.D., University of Paris, 1984, Chair, Carolina Distinguished Professor |
| Ralf W. Gothe, Ph.D., University of Mainz, 1990 |
| Vladimir Gudkov, Ph.D., Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute, 1984, Interim Graduate Director |
| Kuniharu Kubodera, Ph.D., University of Tokyo, 1970 |
| Varsha P. Kulkarni, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996 |
| Milind Kunchur, Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1988 |
| Pawel O. Mazur, Ph.D., Jagellonian University, 1982 |
| Sanjib R. Mishra, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1986 |
| Fred Myhrer, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1973 |
| Milind V. Purohit, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1983 |
| Carl Rosenfeld, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1977 |
| David J. Tedeschi, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic, 1993 |
| Richard Webb, Ph.D., University of California at San Diego, 1973, Distinguished University Professor |
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| Associate Professors |
| Thomas M. Crawford, Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1992 |
| Steffen Strauch, Ph.D., Darmstadt University, 1998 |
| Jeffrey R. Wilson, Ph.D., Purdue University, 1985, Undergraduate Director |
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| Assistant Professors |
| Brett D. Altschul, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003 |
| Yaroslaw Bazaliy, Ph.D., Stanford University, 2000 |
| Scott R. Crittenden, Ph.D., Purdue University, 2004 |
| Yordanka Y. Ilieva, Ph.D., Bulgaria Academy of Sciences, 2001 |
| Yuriy Pershyn, Ph.D., University of Konstanz, 2002 |
| Roberto Petti, Ph.D., Pavia University, 1998 |
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| Affiliated Faculty |
| Boris Ivlev, Ph.D., Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 1973, Visiting Professor |
| Oscar Lopez, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1992, Adjunct Associate Professor |
| Shmuel Nussinov, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1966, Visiting Professor |
| Toru Sato, Ph.D., Osaka University, 1980, Visiting Associate Professor |
| Jose Vargas, Ph.D., Utah State University, 1987, Adjunct Professor |
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| Faculty Emeriti |
| Chi-Kwan Au, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1972 |
| Gary S. Blanpied, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1977 |
| Ronald Dovaston Edge, Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1956 |
| Horacio A. Farach, Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires, 1962 |
| Joseph E. Johnson III, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1968 |
| Edwin R. Jones Jr., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1965 |
| James M. Knight, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1960 |
| John M. Palms, Ph. D., University of New Mexico, 1966 |
| Charles P. Poole Jr., Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1958 |
| Barry M. Preedom, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1967 |
| John L. Safko, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1965 |
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