30 physics professors in the United States, at 20 universities. The most represented are University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University. 15 of them are verified faculty: their current appointment was confirmed against their own university's pages or a current faculty record in ORCID, and they are listed first.
The list is built from open publication data (OpenAlex and ORCID), the same data ProfScout uses in the app: actively publishing faculty at the largest research universities in the United States whose recent work sits in physics. Retired, trainee and staff-scientist records are filtered out where the public record identifies them. It is not a prestige ranking: professors are listed by how prominently physics figures in their published work, verified faculty first. Reply-fit scores, which weigh how likely each professor is to answer a student's email, are computed for your own profile inside ProfScout. Updated September 2026; the list is rebuilt from the open record a few times a year.
Materials Science · Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsPlasmonic and Surface Plasmon ResearchAdvanced Chemical Physics Studies
Recent: Mapping the growth mechanism of Ag nanoclusters in plasma-driven solution electrolysis using the PathTree method and Monte Carlo reaction propagation (2026)
Physics and Astronomy · Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studiesHigh-Energy Particle Collisions ResearchQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
Universities on this list: University of California, Berkeley (4) · Cornell University (3) · Johns Hopkins University (2) · New York University (2) · The Ohio State University (2) · University of Florida (2) · University of Wisconsin–Madison (2) · Duke University (1) · Northwestern University (1) · Pennsylvania State University (1) · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1) · Stanford University (1) · Texas A&M University (1) · The University of Texas at Austin (1) · University of California San Diego (1) · University of Chicago (1) · University of Maryland, College Park (1) · University of Minnesota (1) · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1) · University of Pittsburgh (1)
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