Texas Tech University

List of Faculty (1924 - 2020)

 Sr. no. years worked total years photo name title
1 1924 - 1943 19 Avatar Enoch Franklin George 1st Department Chair (1924 - 1943; 19)
Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State, 1920
2 1924 - 1936 12 Avatar Clarence Simpson Mast Professor
MA, Ohio Wesleyan, 1911
Deceased(1936); The Mast House
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3 1925 - 1941 16 Avatar Harry Hill Associate Professor
MA, West Virginia, 1924
4 1926 - 1941 15 Avatar William Henry Abitt Professor
Ph.D., Chicago, 1926
Proffesor at Washington State University
Deceased(1896 - 1983)
5 1927 - 1962 35 Avatar Clarence Carl Schmidt
Scholarship
2nd Department Chair (1943 - 1958; 15)
Professor
Ph.D., Illinois, 1927
Retired(1962); Deceased
6 1941 - 1946 5 Avatar Jules DeLaunay Professor
Ph.D., Stanford
Naval Research Laboratory
US Navy's Superconductivity Program
7 1942 - 1947 5 Avatar Richard L Doleck Professor
Ph.D., Kansas
8 1943 - 1944 1 Avatar Luna Bahm Associate Professor
MA, Texas Technological College
9 1946 - 1971 25 Avatar James Wendell Day
Scholarship
Professor
MA, Texas, 1939
Retired(1971); Deceased
10 1946 - 1960 14 Avatar William Walter Merrymon Professor
Ph.D., Chicago
11 1946 - 1948 2 Avatar James Hollie Cross Assistant Professor
MA, Texas Technological College, 1946
Deceased(December 8,1948)
12 1946 - 1948 2 Avatar Grover Burns Associate Professor
13 1949 - 1952 3 Avatar Herman Glaser Associate Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Professor at Hofstra University
14 1949 - 1952 3 Chester_Mckinney 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 img Preston Frazler Gott
Scholarship
Associate Professor
MA, Texas, 1947
Retired(1991); Deceased(1919 - 2002)
16 1950 - 1952 2 img Russell J Steffy Assistant Professor
BME, Akron
17 1950 - 1951 1 img Paul Penn Elliot Assistant Professor
BA, Culver Stockton
18 1953 - 1957 4 img David Jacob Besdin Associate Professor
Ph.D., Rice
19 1953 - 1955 2 img John Clarence Resler Assistant Professor
MS, Oklahoma A&M
20 1954 - 1958 4 img 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
21 1955 - 1991 36 img Billy Joe Sandlin Associate Professor
Ph.D., Texas, 1960
Retired(1991); Deceased(1999)
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 img Oliver Loyd Basford Assistant Professor
MA, Texas
24 1956 - 1960 4 img Dean Charles Severance Assistant Professor
MA, Vermont
Professor at Norwich University in Northfield
Deceased(1923 - 2003)
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 img Willie Edward Phillips Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Deceased(1923 - 2000)
National Bureau of Standards
27 1960 - 1982 22 img Glen Alan Mann
Scholarship
5th Interim Department Chair(1976 - 1977; 1)
Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State, 1959
Retired(1976); Deceased
28 1960 - 1964 4 img Clarence Gerald Gardner Associate Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt
29 1962 - 1987 25 David Allen Howe
Scholarship
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana
Retired(1988); Deceased(1935 - 1992)
30 1962 - 1965 3 img Richard Emerson Berry Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton
31 1963 - 2014 51 Arfin Lodhi
Scholarship
Professor
Ph.D., Imperial College London, 1963
Retired(2014); PHAS (Research Professor)
32 1962 - 1991 27 img Young Nok Kim Professor
Ph.D., Birmingham (UK), 1957
Retired (1992); Deceased
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 img Roger Lichti
Scholarship
12th Department Chair (2009 - 2015; 6)
Professor
Ph.D., Illinois, 1972
Retired (2016)
42 1979 - 2005 26 img 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