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The People of the Physics Department

The Harvey Mudd Physics Faculty combines a breadth of research interests and backgrounds with a commitment to teaching to help every student succeed. Current research interests and activities include imaging developing embryos with an optical coherence microscope, giant magnetoresistance, magnetic transistors, stellar formation in the Milky Way, modeling the dynamics of stress in the crust between earthquakes, the stability of black holes, the physics of small atomic clusters, and semiconductor nanostructures. Click on a picture to find out more about the interests and activities of each professor.

Staff

Annie Atiyeh

1987
Laboratory and Stockroom Manager

Kathy Morrison

Department Secretary

Mike Wheeler

Machinist

Faculty

Chih-Yung Chen Associate Professor 1990 solid state physics	Thomas D. Donnelly Professor 1997 ultrafast phenomena	James C. Eckert Professor 1980 magnetism
Adam Edwards Assistant Professor 2008 particle physics	Ann Esin Associate Professor 2001 astrophysics	Richard C. Haskell Professor 1980 biophysics
Theresa W. Lynn Assistant Professor 2004 quantum optics	Gregory A. Lyzenga Professor 1990 geophysics	Peter N. Saeta Professor 1995 nonlinear optics and solid state physics
Vatche Sahakian Assistant Professor 2003 string theory	Patricia D. Sparks Professor 1989 solid state physics	John S. Townsend Professor 1975 particle physics

Emeriti

Thomas M. Helliwell Emeritus Professor 1962 general relativity	Daniel C. Petersen Emeritus Professor 1974 biophysics	Joseph B. Platt Emeritus Professor 1955 founding president of HMC
Graydon Bell Emeritus Professor 1957 atomic physics	Robert P. Wolf Emeritus Professor 1963 environmental and computational physics

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