List of Faculty (1924 - 2020)
| Sr. no. | years worked | total years | photo | name | title |
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| 1 | 1924 - 1943 | 19 | Enoch Franklin George | 1st Department Chair (1924 - 1943; 19) Professor Ph.D., Ohio State, 1920 |
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| 2 | 1924 - 1936 | 12 | Clarence Simpson Mast | Professor MA, Ohio Wesleyan, 1911 Deceased(1936); The Mast House LinkLink |
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| 3 | 1925 - 1941 | 16 | Harry Hill | Associate Professor MA, West Virginia, 1924 |
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| 4 | 1926 - 1941 | 15 | William Henry Abitt | Professor Ph.D., Chicago, 1926 Proffesor at Washington State University Deceased(1896 - 1983) |
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| 5 | 1927 - 1962 | 35 | Clarence Carl Schmidt Scholarship |
2nd Department Chair (1943 - 1958; 15) Professor Ph.D., Illinois, 1927 Retired(1962); Deceased |
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| 6 | 1941 - 1946 | 5 | Jules DeLaunay | Professor Ph.D., Stanford Naval Research Laboratory US Navy's Superconductivity Program |
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| 7 | 1942 - 1947 | 5 | Richard L Doleck | Professor Ph.D., Kansas |
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| 8 | 1943 - 1944 | 1 | Luna Bahm | Associate Professor MA, Texas Technological College |
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| 9 | 1946 - 1971 | 25 | James Wendell Day Scholarship |
Professor MA, Texas, 1939 Retired(1971); Deceased |
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| 10 | 1946 - 1960 | 14 | William Walter Merrymon | Professor Ph.D., Chicago |
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| 11 | 1946 - 1948 | 2 | James Hollie Cross | Assistant Professor MA, Texas Technological College, 1946 Deceased(December 8,1948) |
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| 12 | 1946 - 1948 | 2 | Grover Burns | Associate Professor | |
| 13 | 1949 - 1952 | 3 | Herman Glaser | Associate Professor Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Professor at Hofstra University |
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| 14 | 1949 - 1952 | 3 | ![]() |
Chester M. McKinney | Associate Professor Ph.D., Texas, 1950 UT Applied Research Lab(Director Acoustical Society of America Deceased(1920 - 2017) |
| 15 | 1950 - 1991 | 41 | ![]() ![]() |
Preston Frazler Gott Scholarship |
Associate Professor MA, Texas, 1947 Retired(1991); Deceased(1919 - 2002) |
| 16 | 1950 - 1952 | 2 | Russell J Steffy | Assistant Professor BME, Akron |
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| 17 | 1950 - 1951 | 1 | Paul Penn Elliot | Assistant Professor BA, Culver Stockton |
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| 18 | 1953 - 1957 | 4 | David Jacob Besdin | Associate Professor Ph.D., Rice |
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| 19 | 1953 - 1955 | 2 | John Clarence Resler | Assistant Professor MS, Oklahoma A&M |
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| 20 | 1954 - 1958 | 4 | Joseph Harold Rush | Professor Ph.D., Duke Deceased(1911 - 2006) The 1st Secretary-Treasurer of the Federation of American Scientists; National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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| 21 | 1955 - 1991 | 36 | Billy Joe Sandlin | Associate Professor Ph.D., Texas, 1960 Retired(1991); Deceased(1999) |
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| 22 | 1955 - 1956 | 1 | ![]() |
Pat Morris Windham | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Rice Professor at University of North Texas Deceased(1920 - 2007) |
| 23 | 1956 - 1964 | 8 | Oliver Loyd Basford | Assistant Professor MA, Texas |
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| 24 | 1956 - 1960 | 4 | Dean Charles Severance | Assistant Professor MA, Vermont Professor at Norwich University in Northfield Deceased(1923 - 2003) |
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| 25 | 1958 - 1984 | 26 | ![]() |
Henry Coffman Thomas Scholarship |
3rd Department Chair(1958 - 1973; 15) 7th Department Chair(1979 - 1984; 5) Professor Ph.D. Vanderbilt, 1950 Retired(1984); Deceased(1918 - 2017) |
| 26 | 1958 - 1963 | 5 | Willie Edward Phillips | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Vanderbilt Deceased(1923 - 2000) National Bureau of Standards |
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| 27 | 1960 - 1982 | 22 | Glen Alan Mann Scholarship |
5th Interim Department Chair(1976 - 1977; 1) Professor Ph.D., Michigan State, 1959 Retired(1976); Deceased |
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| 28 | 1960 - 1964 | 4 | Clarence Gerald Gardner | Associate Professor Ph.D., Vanderbilt |
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| 29 | 1962 - 1987 | 25 | ![]() |
David Allen Howe Scholarship |
Associate Professor Ph.D., Indiana Retired(1988); Deceased(1935 - 1992) |
| 30 | 1962 - 1965 | 3 | Richard Emerson Berry | Associate Professor Ph.D., Princeton |
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| 31 | 1963 - 2014 | 51 | ![]() |
Arfin Lodhi Scholarship |
Professor Ph.D., Imperial College London, 1963 Retired(2014); PHAS (Research Professor) |
| 32 | 1962 - 1991 | 27 | Young Nok Kim | Professor Ph.D., Birmingham (UK), 1957 Retired (1992); Deceased |
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| 33 | 1964 - 1991 | 27 | ![]() |
Raymond William Mires | Professor Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1964 Retired(1992); Deceased (1933 - 2010) |
| 34 | 1965 - 2011 | 46 | ![]() |
Charles Richard Quade | Professor Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1962 Retired(2011) |
| 35 | 1965 - 1979 | 14 | ![]() |
Billy Jack Marshall | 4th Department Chair (1973 - 1976; 3) Professor Ph.D., Rice, 1962 Deceased (1935 - 1979) |
| 36 | 1966 - 1988 | 22 | ![]() |
Kamalaksha Das Gupta | Professor Ph.D., Liverpool (UK), 1962 |
| 37 | 1968 - 2007 | 39 | ![]() |
Lynn Lamar Hartfield Scholarship |
10th Department Chair (1998 - 2007; 9) Professor Ph.D., Arkansas, 1966 Retired (2007); Deceased (1937 - 2018) |
| 38 | 1968 - 1969 | 1 | ![]() |
Donald Leon Parker | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1968 St. Mary's University (Chair) Professor at TAMU; Retired(2012) Deceased (1935 - 2018) |
| 39 | 1977 - 1979 | 2 | ![]() |
Sam B. Trickey | 6th Department Chair (1977 - 1979; 2) Professor Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1968 Professor at University of Florida Retired (2005) |
| 40 | 1978 - 2019 | 41 | ![]() |
Charles W. Myles | 9th Department Chair (1992 - 1998; 6) Professor Ph.D., Washington (St. Louis), 1973 Retired (2019); TTU - PHAS (Instructor) |
| 41 | 1979 - 2016 | 37 | ![]() ![]() |
Roger Lichti Scholarship |
12th Department Chair (2009 - 2015; 6) Professor Ph.D., Illinois, 1972 Retired (2016) |
| 42 | 1979 - 2005 | 26 | ![]() ![]() |
Erhard Roland Menzel Scholarship |
Horn Professor Ph.D., Washington State, 1970 Deceased(2006) *Inventor of Laser Fingerprint Technology |
| 43 | 1979 - 1983 | 4 | ![]() |
Erich E. Kunhardt | Associate Professor Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of New York, 1976 Professor at NYU Applied Physics Deceased (1949 - 2014) |
| 44 | 1979 - 1981 | 2 | ![]() |
Alton K. Schultz | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Houston, 1979 Senior Research Scientist at Amoco Production Co.'s Tulsa Tulsa Research Center |
| 45 | 1981 - 1990 | 9 | ![]() |
Vijendra K. Agarwal | Associate Professor Ph.D., Roorkee (India), 1972 Former Dean, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Minnesota State University |
| 46 | 1981 - 1983 | 2 | ![]() |
Amarendra Nath Vishnoi | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Allahabad (India), 1970 |
| 47 | 1982 - 1986 | 4 | ![]() |
Carolus Boekema | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Groningen (Netherlands), 1977 Professor at San Jose State University |
| 48 | 1984 - 2009 | 25 | ![]() |
Walter L. Borst | 8th Department Chair (1984 - 1992; 8) Professor Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1968 Retired (2009); TTU - PHAS (Instructor) |
| 49 | 1985 - | 35+ | ![]() |
Thomas L. Gibson | Associate Professor Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1982 |
| 50 | 1985 - 1998 | 13 | ![]() |
Randall D. Peters | Associate Professor Ph.D., Tennessee, 1968 Mercer University, Dept. of Physics Chair:1998 - 2012; Retired (2012) |
| 51 | 1986 - 2020 | 34 | ![]() |
Stefan K. Estreicher | Horn Professor Ph.D., Zurich (Switzerland), 1982 Retired (2020); TTU-PHAS (Instructor) |
| 52 | 1986 - 2003 | 17 | ![]() |
Shubhra Gangopadhyay Scholarship |
Professor Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, (Kharagpur, India) 1982 Professor at University of Missouri |
| 53 | 1987 - | 33+ | ![]() |
David Lamp | Associate Professor Ph.D., Missouri, 1984 NSF Program Director, ECCS(Present) |
| 54 | 1988 - 2014 | 26 | ![]() |
Kwan Hon Cheng | Professor Ph.D., Waterloo(Canada), 1983 Williams Endowed Professor in Interdisciplinary Physics at Trinity University |
| 55 | 1990 - 2019 | 29 | ![]() |
Wallace L. Glab | Associate Professor Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984 Retired (2019); Lubbock |
| 56 | 1991 - 2013 | 22 | ![]() |
Mark W. Holtz | Professor Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987 Texas State University Department of Physics (Chair) |
| 57 | 1991 - 1997 | 6 | ![]() |
Gerald J. Bottrell | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Georgia, 1988 Lubbock ISD/Lubbock High School |
| 58 | 1992 - 2020 | 28 | ![]() |
Richard Wigmans | Bucy Professor Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands), 1975 Retired (2020); Lubbock |
| 59 | 1992 - 2000 | 8 | ![]() |
Alan Sill | Associate Professor Ph.D., American University, 1987 TTU HPCC (Director) |
| 60 | 1994 - 2005 | 11 | ![]() |
Vaia Papadimitriou | Professor Ph.D., Chicago, 1990 Senior Scientist at Fermilab |
| 61 | 1999 - | 21+ | ![]() |
Juyang Huang | Professor Ph.D., State University of New York (Buffalo), 1987 |
| 62 | 1999 - | 21+ | ![]() |
Beth Ann Thacker | Associate Professor Ph.D., Cornell, 1990 |
| 63 | 2000 - | 20+ | ![]() |
Nural Akchurin | 11th Department Chair (2007 - 2009; 2) 13th Department Chair (2015 - 2018; 3) Professor Ph.D., Iowa, 1990 |
| 64 | 2002 - 2010 | 8 | ![]() |
Ronald Joseph Wilhelm | Associate Professor Ph.D., Michigan State, 1995 Associate Professor at University of Kentucky |
| 65 | 2002 - 2005 | 3 | ![]() |
Latika Menon | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Tata Inst. Fund. Res. (India), 1997 Associate Professor at Northeastern University |
| 66 | 2004 - | 16+ | ![]() |
Mahdi Sanati | Associate Professor Ph.D., Cincinnati, 1999 |
| 67 | 2006 - | 14+ | ![]() |
Sung-Won Lee | 14th Department Chair (2018 - Present) Professor Ph.D., Glasgow (UK), 2000 |
| 68 | 2006 - | 14+ | ![]() |
Igor Volobouev | Associate Professor Ph.D., SMU, 1997 |
| 69 | 2007 - | 13+ | ![]() |
Luis Grave De Peralta | Professor Ph.D., Texas Tech, 2000 |
| 70 | 2008 - 2012 | 4 | ![]() |
Soyeun Park | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Texas, 2003 Professor at Keimyung University (Korea) |
| 71 | 2011 - 2017 | 6 | ![]() |
Maurice Clark | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Murdoch (Australia), 2000 Assistant Professor at Troy University |
| 72 | 2013 - | 7+ | ![]() |
Thomas J. Maccarone | Professor Ph.D., Yale, 2001 |
| 73 | 2013 - 2019 | 6 | ![]() |
Shuichi Kunori | Associate Professor D.Sc, Tohoku (Japan), 1981 Assistant Professor at Troy University |
| 74 | 2013 - 2018 | 5 | ![]() |
David J. Sand | Assistant Professor Ph.D., California Inst. of Tech., 2005 Associate Professor at University of Arizona |
| 75 | 2013 - 2018 | 5 | ![]() |
Anthony B. Kaye | Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgia State, 1998 Subject Matter Expert at US Air Force |
| 76 | 2014 - | 6+ | ![]() |
Robert V. Duncan | Professor and President's Distinguished Chair in Physics Ph.D., California (Santa Barbara), 1988 |
| 77 | 2014 - | 6+ | ![]() |
Alessandra Corsi | Associate Professor Ph.D., Rome Sapienza (Italy), 2007 |
| 78 | 2015 - | 5+ | ![]() |
Benjamin J. Owen | Professor Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2007 |
| 79 | 2018 - | 2+ | ![]() |
Joseph D. Romano | Professor Ph.D., Syracuse, 1991 |
| 80 | 2018 - | 2+ | ![]() |
Andrew Whitbeck | Assistant Professor Ph.D., John Hopkins, 2013 |
| 81 | 2018 - 2020 | 2 | ![]() |
Simone Scaringi | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Southhampton (UK), 2005 Assistant Professor at Durham University (UK) |
| 82 | 2019 - | 1+ | ![]() |
Myoung-Hwan Kim | Assistant Professor Ph.D., State University of New York (Buffalo), 2011 |
| 83 | 2019 - | 1+ | ![]() |
Ioannis Chatzakis | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Kansas State, 2009 |
| 84 | 2020 - | 0+ | ![]() |
Wade DeGottardi | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, 2012 |
| 85 | 2020 - | 0+ | ![]() |
Halyna Hodovanets | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Iowa State, 2014 |
| 88 | 2020 - | 0+ | ![]() |
Thomas Kupfer | Assistant Professor Ph.D., Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands), 2015 |
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