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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Physics & Astronomy?

5,845 researchers in the United States whose main field is Physics & Astronomy are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 7.9% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 105 countries in the field. 2,571 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). California Institute of Technology has the most (104), followed by College of Engineering (104) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

5,845

7.9% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

2,571

44.0% of them

Country rank in the field

of 105 countries in Physics & Astronomy

Highest-ranked

#13

Perdew, John

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	California Institute of Technology	104	65	#3	Hopkins, Philip F. #397
2	College of Engineering	104	37	#4	Bhushan, Bharat #594
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	98	48	#6	Lloyd, Seth #297
4	Princeton University	79	56	#9	Lieb, Élliott H. #743
5	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	75	29	#11	Zettl, Alex K. #6,922
6	Stanford University	73	43	#15	Chu, Steven #1,869
7	National Institute of Standards and Technology	73	16	#16	Ravel, Bruce D. #13,824
8	University of California, Berkeley	68	42	#18	Linder, Eric V. #2,812
9	Los Alamos National Laboratory	61	22	#22	Zurek, Wojciech Hubert #1,340
10	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	61	20	#23	Dagotto, Elbio R.A. #7,569
11	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	60	26	#24	Newman, Mark E.J. #30
12	Google LLC	59	18	#25	Kitaev, Alexei Yu #529
13	University of California, Santa Barbara	55	34	#28	Kohn, Walter #308
14	University of Colorado Boulder	55	30	#29	Zunger, Alex #1,424
15	The University of Arizona	54	21	#30	Smith, Nathan #5,893
16	University of Washington	53	26	#33	Dunning, Thom H. #1,159
17	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	53	15	#34	Zhou, Ye #14,468
18	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	52	25	#35	Gottesman, Daniel #3,877
19	University of California, Los Angeles	51	34	#37	Turner, Michael S. #3,984
20	Harvard University	50	27	#39	Sachdev, Subir #486
21	The Ohio State University	49	26	#40	Wilson, Kenneth G. #5,708
22	University of California, San Diego	47	18	#42	Hirsch, Jorge E. #3,800
23	Pennsylvania State University	46	27	#43	Ashtekar, Abhay #3,320
24	Columbia University	44	33	#48	Metzger, Brian D. #1,767
25	The Grainger College of Engineering	43	14	#49	Ceperley, David M. #8,739
26	College of Science and Engineering	42	22	#54	Avouris, Ph #4,879
27	Argonne National Laboratory	42	15	#56	Klippenstein, Stephen J. #6,477
28	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	41	20	#59	Gehrels, Neil C. #22,531
29	University of Maryland, College Park	40	19	#60	Das Sarma, Sankar D. #2,156
30	School of Engineering and Applied Science	39	17	#62	Stone, Howard A. #1,770
31	Stony Brook University	39	21	#63	Lattimer, James M. #2,097
32	Northwestern University	38	14	#68	Faucher-Giguère, Claude Andre #5,113
33	Arizona State University	37	12	#71	Angell, Charles Austen #1,873
34	Cornell University College of Engineering	36	14	#75	Williamson, Charles H.K. #2,397
35	The University of Texas at Austin	35	15	#78	Weinberg, Steven #243
36	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center	34	8	#85	Bravyi, Sergey B. #2,014
37	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	34	15	#88	Martinez, Todd J. #16,671
38	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	33	16	#90	Cahill, David G. #1,565
39	Texas A&M University	33	16	#91	Kennicutt, Robert C. #2,578
40	Yale University	33	18	#92	Van Dokkum, Pieter G. #2,945
41	College of Science	33	16	#94	Zakharov, Vladimir E. #9,534
42	MIT School of Engineering	32	19	#97	Chen, Gang #613
43	Johns Hopkins University	32	19	#100	Kamionkowski, Marc #6,261
44	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	30	9	#110	Éfros, Al L. #12,070
45	The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering	30	9	#111	Billinge, Simon J.L. #12,121
46	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	28	19	#119	Hernquist, Lars E. #770
47	Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico	28	7	#129	Thompson, Aidan P. #15,026
48	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	27	16	#130	Vanderbilt, David H. #252
49	University of California, Irvine	27	12	#131	White, Steven R. #1,055
50	Michigan State University	26	12	#148	Brown, B. Alex #11,718
51	Georgia Institute of Technology	25	10	#152	El-Sayed, Mostafa A. #896
52	University of Pittsburgh	24	8	#164	Hapke, Bruce W. #11,505
53	University of California, Davis	24	8	#165	Pickett, Warren E. #19,335
54	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	23	14	#168	Kane, Charles L. #3,838
55	Brookhaven National Laboratory	23	8	#169	Bak, Per #21,242
56	Cornell University	22	12	#171	Strogatz, Steven H. #635
57	Rice University	22	10	#173	Scuseria, Gustavo E. #2,718
58	Stanford Engineering	22	8	#174	Wong, Hon Sum Philip #3,469
59	Nokia Bell Labs	22	8	#175	Shockley, William #4,395
60	University of Central Florida	22	5	#179	Wu, Shin Tson #9,063
61	University of Massachusetts Amherst	22	14	#180	Calzetti, Daniela #9,916
62	Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division	22	4	#181	Tretiak, Sergei #34,834
63	Institute for Advanced Study	21	11	#184	Witten, Edward #45
64	Northeastern University	21	9	#160	Barabási, Albert Lásló #115
65	Space Telescope Science Institute	21	14	#185	Riess, Adam G. #1,491
66	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	21	12	#186	Capasso, Federico #1,515
67	Brown University	21	9	#188	Head, James W. #4,116
68	College of Arts & Sciences	21	8	#189	Sandvik, Anders W. #7,961
69	National Laboratory of the Rockies	21	2	#191	Nozik, Arthur J. #9,948
70	California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science	20	14	#197	Váhala, Kerry J. #1,697
71	Simons Foundation	20	15	#198	Spergel, David N. #4,724
72	Carnegie Mellon University	19	14	#204	Ṕople, John A. #1,401
73	University of Wisconsin-Madison	19	10	#205	Weinhold, F. A. #2,694
74	University of Florida	19	8	#209	Bartlett, Rodney J. #3,944
75	Washington University in St. Louis	19	9	#210	Bender, Carl M. #4,311
76	Iowa State University	19	9	#219	Durbin, Paul A. #18,643
77	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	19	7	#223	EGAMI, Takeshi #25,520
78	University of Rochester	18	11	#226	Boyd, Robert W. #681
79	Indiana University Bloomington	18	9	#228	Raghavachari, Krishnan #3,026
80	Penn State College of Engineering	18	5	#231	van Duin, Adri C.T. #5,782
81	Center for Theoretical Physics	18	9	#214	Guth, Alan H. #7,957
82	Pratt School of Engineering	17	5	#237	Mitzi, David B. #1,687
83	The University of Chicago	17	11	#239	Wald, Robert M. #1,851
84	University of California, Riverside	17	8	#242	Atkinson, Roger #3,689
85	USC Viterbi School of Engineering	17	8	#245	Christodoulides, Demetrios N. #5,564
86	Michigan Engineering	17	6	#247	Guo, Lingjie Jay #7,565
87	Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science	17	7	#248	Cao, Hui #8,443
88	College of Letters & Science	17	10	#249	Saffman, Mark E. #8,741
89	College of Arts and Sciences	17	9	#250	Liu, Shubin #9,720
90	New York University	17	6	#252	Cranmer, Kyle S. #10,796
91	College of Engineering and Applied Science	17	10	#253	Ruzzene, Massimo #12,803
92	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	17	3	#261	Berlin, Asher #62,830
93	University of California, Santa Cruz	16	11	#263	Wòosley, Stanford E. #788
94	NC State University	16	7	#268	Baliga, Bayant Jayant #10,299
95	JILA	16	5	#269	Begelman, Mitchell C. #10,542
96	NASA Ames Research Center	16	11	#270	Zahnle, Kevin J. #12,319
97	Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering	16	4	#272	Lai, Yingcheng #20,656
98	General Atomics	16	6	#275	Rosenbluth, Marshall N. #20,920
99	College of Natural Sciences	16	5	#279	Kumar, Pawan #38,934
100	Louisiana State University	15	5	#288	Wilde, Mark M. #7,595
101	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	15	3	#289	Tsymbal, E. Yu #7,934
102	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	15	9	#292	de Yoreo, James J. #9,583
103	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	15	3	#297	Onufriev, Alexey V. #19,277
104	Brookhaven National Laboratory Physics Department	15	8	#298	Schenke, Bjo¨rn #20,291
105	Duke University	14	10	#309	Yang, Weitao #2,507
106	University of Southern California	14	6	#313	Warshel, Arieh W. #6,194
107	The University of Utah	14	9	#314	Eyring, Henry #11,284
108	University of Virginia	14	10	#315	Herbst, Eric #11,427
109	University of Connecticut	14	3	#317	Klemens, Paul G. #16,930
110	Boston University	13	8	#326	Stanley, H. Eugene #1,611
111	The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics	13	8	#330	Hu, Wayne #5,168
112	Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering	13	5	#332	Pearton, S. J. #6,687
113	School of Engineering	13	5	#334	Mittleman, Daniel M. #8,506
114	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	13	4	#337	Prasad, Paras N. #13,350
115	MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research	13	7	#339	Vogelsberger, Mark #14,016
116	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	13	6	#340	Lorenz, Ralph D. #14,288
117	University of Notre Dame	13	4	#342	Hartland, Gregory V. #32,783
118	Purdue University	13	3	#343	Lundstrom, Mark S. #33,299
119	Vanderbilt University	13	3	#345	Stassun, Keivan Guadalupe #36,379
120	University of Rochester Institute of Optics	12	5	#353	Agrawal, Govind P. #3,333
121	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	12	5	#354	Sikivie, Pierre #5,895
122	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	12	5	#358	Lipson, Michal #8,889
123	The Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics	12	7	#363	Tinker, Jeremy L. #15,356
124	Syracuse University	12	6	#365	Nitz, Alexander H. #15,740
125	Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science	12	5	#367	Razeghi, Manijeh M. #19,477
126	Air Force Research Laboratory	12	2	#368	DeWitt, Bryce Seligman #21,670
127	Department of Physics	12	6	#66	Manohar, Aneesh V. #24,653
128	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	12	5	#376	Parker, Leonard Alden #26,955
129	University of Delaware	12	4	#379	Matthaeus, William H. #34,092
130	Cockrell School of Engineering	12	2	#381	Shi, Li #42,381
131	University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science	12	2	#385	Zhigilei, Leonid V. #60,176
132	Santa Fe Institute	11	10	#392	Anderson, Philip Warren #327
133	MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	11	7	#394	Dresselhaus, Mildred Spiewak #1,570
134	University of Pennsylvania	11	4	#397	Engheta, Nader S. #2,245
135	The University of New Mexico	11	3	#399	Caves, Carlton M. #4,521
136	University of Oregon	11	8	#401	Wineland, David J. #5,557
137	Case Western Reserve University	11	6	#410	McGaugh, Stacy S. #15,079
138	Space Science and Engineering Division	11	9	#416	Canup, Robin M. #21,478
139	UW-Madison College of Engineering	11	5	#426	Yu, Zongfu #39,571
140	University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics	11	3	#428	Betti, Riccardo #41,077
141	IBM Research - Almaden	11	3	#432	Chen, An #52,601
142	College of Engineering and Physical Sciences	11	1	#434	Foucart, François #53,865
143	UW College of Engineering	10	8	#443	Brunton, Steven L. #727
144	College of Science and Technology	10	4	#451	Spano, Frank C. #5,925
145	The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago	10	6	#453	Kravtsov, Andrey V. #6,339
146	Rochester Institute of Technology	10	5	#456	Merritt, David #8,222
147	Eberly College of Science	10	5	#457	Sathyaprakash, B. S. #8,743
148	University Hawaii Institute for Astronomy	10	9	#458	Tonry, John L. #9,827
149	Institute for Quantum Information and Matter	10	4	#463	Brandão, Fernando G.S.L. #14,172
150	Ames Laboratory	10	2	#466	Gordon, Mark S. #16,485
151	The Enrico Fermi Institute	10	5	#473	Nambu, Yoichiro #22,893
152	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	10	5	#477	Kim, John Y. #25,468
153	The University of Texas at Dallas	10	5	#487	Ishak, Mustapha #38,205
154	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	10	1	#500	White, R.B B. #93,335
155	Tulane University School of Science and Engineering	9	4	#507	Perdew, John #13
156	AWS Center for Quantum Computing	9	3	#508	Preskill, John P. #199
157	Wayne State University	9	4	#514	Schlegel, H. Bernhard #4,057
158	Washington State University Pullman	9	6	#518	Peterson, Kirk A. #5,868
159	West Virginia University	9	5	#524	Lorimer, Duncan R. #8,960
160	Drexel University	9	3	#526	Fridman, A. A. #9,319
161	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	9	4	#529	Gall, Daniel L. #12,143
162	Florida State University	9	4	#530	Kasha, Michael #16,040
163	NC State College of Engineering	9	6	#537	Brenner, Donald W. #26,413
164	GE Global Research	9	1	#539	Bean, Charles P. #27,773
165	School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	9	3	#541	Ruckenstein, Eli #28,908
166	Boston University College of Engineering	9	2	#548	Tian, Lei #43,503
167	Plasma Science and Fusion Center	9	2	#553	Greenwald, M. J. #52,792
168	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	9	3	#556	Matsko, Andrey B. #66,077
169	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	8	5	#562	Truhlar, Donald G. #439
170	Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics	8	6	#564	Balents, Leon #1,499
171	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering	8	5	#566	Yu, Shimeng #2,005
172	Berkeley College of Chemistry	8	6	#569	Chandler, David #5,347
173	George Mason University	8	3	#570	Mazin, Igor I. #5,522
174	Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science	8	8	#571	Lai, Dong #8,684
175	Brandeis University	8	2	#575	Deser, Stanley #12,235
176	The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at University of Maryland	8	4	#576	Ott, Edward #12,503
177	Electrical and Computer Engineering Department	8	1	#577	Nomura, Kenji #13,548
178	Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics	8	3	#579	Ashcroft, Neil W. #15,660
179	University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)	8	6	#580	Owen, Benjamin J. #15,690
180	Microsoft Research	8	2	#582	Poulin, David #16,892
181	Rockefeller University	8	1	#583	Siggia, Eric Dean S. #17,654
182	The James Franck Institute	8	6	#586	Jaeger, Heinrich M. #19,389
183	Emory University	8	6	#592	Bowman, Joel M. #21,718
184	City College of New York	8	4	#597	Lombardi, John R. #23,612
185	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	8	3	#598	Zhu, Zhaohuan #24,311
186	Missouri University of Science and Technology	8	2	#604	Brow, Richard K. #31,540
187	IonQ, Inc.	8	2	#605	Maslov, Dmitri #31,919
188	Lucent Technologies	8	2	#609	Henry, Charles H. #39,256
189	University of Utah, College Of Science	8	5	#611	Milton, Graeme Walter #43,660
190	Boston College	8	2	#612	Broído, David A. #44,112
191	University of South Carolina	8	1	#624	Rassolov, Vitaly A. #73,369
192	George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing	8	2	#625	Brake, Matthew R.W. #73,784
193	Lincoln Laboratory	8	1	#626	Fan, Tso Yee T.Y. #75,761
194	College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics	8	2	#631	Ratti, Claudia #90,111
195	Ginzton Laboratory	7	6	#637	Fan, Shanhui #360
196	IBM Research	7	3	#638	Bennett, Charles H. #501
197	University of Missouri	7	4	#641	Singh, David Joseph #2,939
198	Infrared Processing & Analysis Center	7	6	#645	Wright, Edward L. #4,869
199	Whiting School of Engineering	7	4	#651	Meneveau, Charles #6,414
200	University of Massachusetts Boston	7	4	#654	Soref, Richard A. #7,700
201	Faculty of Arts and Sciences	7	4	#658	Caldwell, Robert R. #10,099
202	Old Dominion University	7	5	#659	Laroussi, Mounir #10,155
203	School of Earth and Space Exploration	7	4	#664	Christensen, Philip R. #14,482
204	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	7	1	#669	Hildebrand, John A. #21,922
205	SETI Institute	7	5	#677	Bishop, Janice L. #26,865
206	Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics	7	3	#679	Dine, Michael #28,191
207	Virginia Tech College of Engineering	7	4	#681	Boreyko, Jonathan B. #35,999
208	A. James Clark School of Engineering	7	2	#690	Guha, Saikat #50,481
209	NOIRLab	7	4	#698	Abbott, Timothy M.C. #60,462
210	Sandia National Laboratories, California	7	2	#703	Taatjes, Craig A. #66,978
211	William & Mary	7	0	#713	Dudek, Jozef J. #106,822
212	The City University of New York	6	3	#721	Alù, Andrea #667
213	University of South Florida, Tampa	6	4	#722	Ma, Wenxiu #694
214	California NanoSystems Institute	6	3	#723	Balandin, Alexander A. #858
215	Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stanford	6	4	#724	Linde, Andrei D. #947
216	Tufts University	6	3	#730	Vilenkin, Alexander V. #2,770
217	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	6	3	#732	Parr, Robert G. #3,220
218	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences	6	5	#734	Yablonovitch, Eli #3,407
219	Microsoft Corporation.	6	4	#735	Hastings, Matthew B. #3,565
220	Virginia Commonwealth University	6	4	#740	Jena, Purusottam Puru #6,027
221	Harvard University Jefferson Physical Laboratory	6	3	#742	Vafa, Cumrun #7,482
222	Department of Materials Science and Engineering	6	4	#655	Wu, Junqiao #7,924
223	University of Houston	6	3	#743	Prosperetti, Andrea #8,562
224	Brookhaven National Laboratory Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department	6	1	#745	Kharzeev, Dmitri E. #9,645
225	Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology	6	5	#747	Blandford, Rogerd D. #11,339
226	Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering	6	3	#750	Clerk, Aashish A. #12,659
227	Texas Tech University	6	4	#759	Hussain, Fazle #15,770
228	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center	6	1	#760	Littenberg, Tyson B. #16,263
229	Kansas State University	6	3	#762	Ratra, Bharat #18,025
230	Planetary Science Institute	6	5	#766	Clark, Roger N. #21,190
231	Clemson University	6	4	#781	Tritt, Terry M. #29,682
232	Space Sciences Laboratory	6	4	#783	Lin, Robert P. #30,388
233	Carnegie Institution of Washington	6	4	#789	Chambers, John E. #35,181
234	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	6	3	#799	Giaré, William #40,629
235	University of Georgia	6	3	#801	Schaefer, Henry Fritz #42,341
236	University of Kansas	6	1	#806	Crossfield, Ian J.M. #49,886
237	Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	6	2	#827	Parker, Kevin J. #83,665
238	Department of Biomedical Engineering	6	0	#839	Xu, Zhen #120,269
239	The University of Texas at Arlington	6	0	#844	Liu, Jinjun Ping #152,683
240	The Advanced Photon Source	6	0	#847	Benmore, Chris J. #210,848
241	Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences	5	2	#851	Giustino, Feliciano #1,471
242	NYU Tandon School of Engineering	5	4	#858	Sreenivasan, Katepalli R. #8,298
243	University of Arkansas	5	2	#859	Pulay, Péter #8,302
244	The University of Toledo	5	2	#860	Yan, Yanfa #8,714
245	Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory	5	4	#861	Dresselhaus, George F. #9,456
246	Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences	5	5	#866	Stevenson, David J. #14,170
247	College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences	5	3	#867	Yang, Jianke #14,207
248	Gaussian Inc.	5	2	#871	Frisch, Michael J. #15,443
249	Kent State University	5	3	#872	Lavrentovich, Oleg D. #16,020
250	The Graduate Center	5	3	#873	Bialek, William S. #16,959
251	Carnegie Observatories	5	3	#875	Simon, Joshua D. #18,759
252	University of North Texas	5	2	#894	Bagus, Paul S. #29,562
253	Oklahoma State University	5	3	#897	San, Omer #30,570
254	Wake Forest University	5	1	#901	Thonhauser, Timo #32,393
255	Chapman University	5	1	#903	Vaidman, Lev #32,951
256	Cornell Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics	5	1	#906	Lepage, G. Peter #33,743
257	Colorado School of Mines	5	2	#909	Genevet, Patrice #34,669
258	Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering	5	3	#911	Bardin, Joseph C. #35,669
259	The George Washington University	5	3	#922	Dermer, Charles Dennison #44,134
260	University of Iowa	5	3	#929	Merlino, Robert L. #50,269
261	Space Science Institute	5	4	#944	Clark, Benton C. #65,567
262	Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility	5	2	#951	Burkert, Volker D. #71,304
263	Cullen College of Engineering	5	3	#958	Zhao, Bo #79,187
264	Intel Corporation	5	1	#961	Moore, Gordon E. #82,688
265	Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science	5	1	#967	Fischetti, Massimo V. #85,288
266	University of Cincinnati	5	1	#972	Ananthapadmanabhan, Kavssery P. #90,161
267	Inc	5	1	#833	Craighead, Harold G. #94,976
268	not available	5	1	#977	Martin, Marcus G. #96,215
269	Ohio University	5	0	#979	Seo, Hee-jong #102,523
270	Tufts School of Engineering	5	0	#988	Fantini, Sergio #143,333
271	University of Mississippi	5	0	#994	Stein, Leo C. #188,362
272	FIU College of Engineering and Computing	5	0	#998	Novikova, Tatiana #219,442
273	Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry	4	3	#1,002	Brédas, J. L. Luc #1,196
274	The University of Oklahoma	4	1	#1,004	Abbott, Benjamin P. #1,846
275	Montana State University	4	3	#1,005	Cornish, Neil J. #2,186
276	Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering	4	3	#1,006	Marcus, Rudolph A. #2,199
277	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	4	4	#1,015	Loeb, Abraham Avi #5,296
278	Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering	4	2	#1,017	Wu, Jianzhong #6,644
279	University of Illinois at Chicago	4	2	#1,019	Stephanov, Mikhail A. #9,518
280	Southwest Research Institute	4	2	#1,022	Nesvorný, David #10,422
281	Vanderbilt University School of Engineering	4	2	#1,024	Fleetwood, Danielm M. #11,136
282	US Naval Academy	4	2	#1,030	Ziegler, James F. #16,659
283	LLC	4	1	#1,032	Crisp, David C. #17,427
284	NTT Research, Inc.	4	1	#1,036	Yamamoto, Yoshihisa #19,969
285	Colorado State University	4	1	#1,038	Ravishankara, Akkihebbal R. #21,134
286	FAMU-FSU College of Engineering	4	2	#1,040	Montanari, Giancarlo #22,115
287	University of Kentucky	4	1	#1,041	Ferland, Gary J. #22,392
288	Yeshiva University	4	1	#1,043	Prodan, Emil V. #23,019
289	VCU College of Engineering	4	1	#1,050	Morkoç̌, Hadis D. #26,515
290	University of Delaware College of Engineering	4	2	#1,054	Janotti, Anderson #28,237
291	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)	4	3	#1,073	Brooks, Bernard R. #33,899
292	Advanced Light Source, Berkeley	4	2	#1,075	Guo, Jinghua #36,121
293	National Radio Astronomy Observatory	4	2	#1,076	Ransom, Scott M. #36,192
294	Exxon Mobil Corporation	4	1	#1,091	Rosensweig, Ronald E. #45,385
295	SDSU College of Sciences	4	2	#1,103	Weber, Fridolin #55,193
296	Massachusetts General Hospital	4	1	#1,124	Stern, Edward A. #68,969
297	Oregon State University	4	2	#1,129	Siemens, Xavier #73,771
298	Francis College of Engineering	4	1	#1,138	Avitabile, Peter #80,831
299	Kennedy College of Sciences	4	1	#1,139	Byrne, Charles L. #81,156
300	The College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences	4	0	#1,161	Henderson, Douglas J. #111,153
301	The Bartol Research Institute	4	0	#1,164	Seckel, David #114,007
302	Meta	4	0	#1,194	Ambrogio, Stefano #184,865
303	McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences	3	2	#1,220	Lodders, Katharina #7,452
304	Kavli Institute at Cornell for NanoScale Science	3	2	#1,231	McMahon, Peter L. #12,156
305	International Business Machines	3	1	#1,242	Gambetta, Jay M. #15,151
306	California State University, Fullerton	3	2	#1,244	Read, Jocelyn S. #16,752
307	University of Rhode Island	3	1	#1,249	Pürrer, Michael #18,453
308	Lockheed Martin Corporation	3	3	#1,255	Schrijver, Carolus J.(Karel) #21,314
309	Southern Methodist University	3	2	#1,259	Cremer, Dieter #22,648
310	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	3	2	#1,267	Norris, Andrew N. #25,878
311	Lehman College	3	1	#1,269	Anchordoqui, Luis Alfredo #26,225
312	National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro	3	3	#1,279	Frail, Dale A. #31,886
313	University of Idaho	3	3	#1,282	MacHleidt, Ruprecht #33,497
314	NIST Center for Neutron Research	3	1	#1,285	Yildirim, Taner #34,736
315	Wright State University	3	1	#1,291	Look, David C. #37,256
316	The University of Texas at El Paso	3	1	#1,293	Chintalapalle, Ramana Venkata #37,532
317	HyperLight	3	1	#1,295	Zhang, Mian #38,208
318	Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems	3	1	#1,298	Ottino, Julio Mario #39,910
319	Independent Researcher	3	1	#1,303	Mikaelian, Karnig O. #43,224
320	Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated	3	2	#1,312	Herring, Conyers #47,657
321	Michigan Technological University	3	1	#1,314	Wertheim, M. S. #48,397
322	The Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory	3	2	#1,321	Rempel, Matthias #50,523
323	California State University, Northridge	3	1	#1,336	Miao, Maosheng #57,805
324	Samueli School of Engineering	3	1	#1,338	Elghobashi, Said E. #58,426
325	John and Marcia Price College of Engineering	3	1	#1,344	Feng, Tianli #60,639
326	University of New Hampshire Durham	3	2	#1,345	Chandran, Benjamin Divakar Giles #61,077
327	Lehigh University	3	2	#1,351	Lee, Jumin #65,470
328	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	3	2	#1,356	Feng, Baofeng #68,073
329	Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering	3	2	#1,357	Wei, Guowei #69,533
330	Tickle College of Engineering	3	1	#1,358	Melcher, Charles L. #70,480
331	HRL Laboratories	3	1	#1,360	Petta, Jason R. #71,813
332	Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	3	1	#1,361	Mededovic-Thagard, Selma Medeovic #72,914
333	Swanson School of Engineering	3	1	#1,372	Balazs, Anna C. #76,899
334	NVIDIA	3	1	#1,134	Smith, Justin S. #77,463
335	Department of Physics and Astronomy	3	2	#1,377	Sun, Ming #78,016
336	University of Colorado at Colorado Springs	3	1	#1,384	Ashkarran, Ali Akbar #82,468
337	Georgetown University	3	1	#1,395	Kertész, Miklós #90,391
338	Schrödinger, LLC	3	1	#1,396	Harder, Edward D. #90,411
339	Wesleyan University Middletown	3	1	#1,397	Pickett, Herbert M. #90,826
340	Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences	3	1	#1,409	Silverman, John D. #99,209
341	The University of Texas at San Antonio	3	1	#1,410	Ahn, Ethan C. #99,417
342	College of Staten Island	3	0	#1,415	Kruk, Michal #101,924
343	Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering	3	0	#1,418	Jiang, Hongxing #104,769
344	Quantinuum Research LLC	3	0	#1,420	Potter, Andrew C. #107,094
345	College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences	3	0	#1,434	Dong, Liang #117,758
346	LIGO Hanford	3	0	#1,439	Sigg, Daniel #123,055
347	General Electric Company	3	0	#1,442	Saxena, Abhinav #125,936
348	Genentech, Inc	3	0	#1,450	Saremi, Sepehr Ghahri #134,162
349	Auburn University	3	0	#1,459	Ortiz, Joseph Vincent #142,399
350	Florida Atlantic University	3	0	#1,461	Tichy, Wolfgang #143,840
351	Central Michigan University	3	0	#1,463	Horoi, Mihai #144,455
352	George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering	3	0	#1,465	Kim, Jin Yeon F. #145,413
353	Department of Bioengineering	3	0	#1,467	Castner, David G. #149,035
354	University of Louisville	3	0	#1,482	Chamblin, Andrew #162,745
355	Applied Materials Incorporated	3	0	#1,485	Pesic, Milan D. #167,912
356	University of Michigan Medical School	3	0	#1,488	Walker, John C. #171,674
357	University of Dayton School of Engineering	3	0	#1,508	Muratore, Christopher #201,002
358	Rigetti Computing	3	0	#1,513	Mutus, Joshua Y. #209,146
359	Hewlett Packard Laboratories	3	0	#1,514	Aieta, Francesco #209,836
360	Drexel University College of Engineering	3	0	#1,522	Shankar, P. Mohana #223,726
361	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	3	0	#1,530	Stanton, Timothy K. #246,411
362	U.S. Army Research Laboratory	3	0	#1,548	Pan, Yongle #299,373

The top 100 in Physics & Astronomy in the United States, in order

1
Perdew, John
Tulane University School of Science and Engineering
2
Newman, Mark E.J.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
3
Witten, Edward
Institute for Advanced Study
4
Barabási, Albert Lásló
Northeastern University
5
Preskill, John P.
AWS Center for Quantum Computing
6
Maldacena, Juan M.
Institute for Advanced Study
7
Weinberg, Steven
The University of Texas at AustinNobel laureate
8
Vanderbilt, David H.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
9
Plimpton, Steven J.
Temple University
10
Lloyd, Seth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11
Kohn, Walter
University of California, Santa BarbaraNobel laureate
12
Anderson, Philip Warren
Santa Fe InstituteNobel laureate
13
Fan, Shanhui
Ginzton Laboratory
14
Hopkins, Philip F.
California Institute of Technology
15
Truhlar, Donald G.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
16
Fu, Liang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17
Sachdev, Subir
Harvard University
18
Bennett, Charles H.
IBM Research
19
Kitaev, Alexei Yu
Google LLC
20
Wazwaz, Abdul Majid 1.
Saint Xavier University
21
Langmuir, Irving
Stevens Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
22
Bhushan, Bharat
College of Engineering
23
Chen, Gang
MIT School of Engineering
24
Strogatz, Steven H.
Cornell University
25
Israelachvili, Jacob N.
University of California, Santa Barbara
26
Alù, Andrea
The City University of New York
27
Boyd, Robert W.
University of Rochester
28
Ma, Wenxiu
University of South Florida, Tampa
29
Wang, Lihong V.
California Institute of Technology
30
Brunton, Steven L.
UW College of Engineering
31
Wen, Xiaogang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32
Lieb, Élliott H.
Princeton University
33
Vidal, Guifré
Google LLC
34
Hernquist, Lars E.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
35
Wòosley, Stanford E.
University of California, Santa Cruz
36
Einstein, Albert
Institute for Advanced StudyNobel laureate
37
Balandin, Alexander A.
California NanoSystems Institute
38
Lukin, Mikhail D.
Harvard University
39
El-Sayed, Mostafa A.
Georgia Institute of Technology
40
Linde, Andrei D.
Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stanford
41
White, Steven R.
University of California, Irvine
42
Haldane, F. D.M.
Princeton UniversityNobel laureate
43
van de Walle, Chris G.
University of California, Santa Barbara
44
Dunning, Thom H.
University of Washington
45
Strominger, Andrew
OpenAI
46
Brédas, J. L. Luc
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
47
Kutz, Jose Nathan
UW College of Engineering
48
Wootters, William K.
Williams College
49
Zurek, Wojciech Hubert
Los Alamos National Laboratory
50
Biot, Maurice A.
California Institute of Technology
51
Ṕople, John A.
Carnegie Mellon UniversityNobel laureate
52
Mackerell, Alexander D.
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
53
Zunger, Alex
University of Colorado Boulder
54
Draine, Bruce T.
Princeton University
55
Giustino, Feliciano
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
56
Riess, Adam G.
Space Telescope Science InstituteNobel laureate
57
Balents, Leon
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
58
Capasso, Federico
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
59
Hopfield, John J.
Princeton UniversityNobel laureate
60
Cahill, David G.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
61
Dresselhaus, Mildred Spiewak
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
62
Burke, Kieron
University of California, Irvine
63
Head-Gordon, Martin P.
Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry
64
Stanley, H. Eugene
Boston University
65
Fortunato, Santo
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
66
Kimble, Harry Jeff
California Institute of Technology
67
Conroy, Charlie
Center for Astrophysics∣Harvard & Smithsonian
68
Mitzi, David B.
Pratt School of Engineering
69
Váhala, Kerry J.
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
70
Metzger, Brian D.
Columbia University
71
Stone, Howard A.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
72
Heeger, Alan J.
University of California, Santa BarbaraNobel laureate
73
Tegmark, Max
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
74
Friesner, Richard A.
Columbia University
75
Abbott, Benjamin P.
The University of Oklahoma
76
Wald, Robert M.
The University of Chicago
77
Chu, Steven
Stanford UniversityNobel laureate
78
Angell, Charles Austen
Arizona State University
79
Goddard  III, William  A A.
California Institute of Technology
80
Susskind, Leonard
Stanford University
81
Yu, Shimeng
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
82
Bravyi, Sergey B.
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
83
Lattimer, James M.
Stony Brook University
84
Das Sarma, Sankar D.
University of Maryland, College Park
85
Cornish, Neil J.
Montana State University
86
Marcus, Rudolph A.
Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringNobel laureate
87
Karplus, Martin
Harvard UniversityNobel laureate
88
Engheta, Nader S.
University of Pennsylvania
89
Anderson, Daniel G.
MIT School of Engineering
90
Onsager, Lars
University of MiamiNobel laureate
91
Williamson, Charles H.K.
Cornell University College of Engineering
92
Narayan, Ramesh
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
93
Forrest, Stephen R.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
94
Yang, Weitao
Duke University
95
Kennicutt, Robert C.
Texas A&M University
96
Miller, David A.B.
Ginzton Laboratory
97
Weinhold, F. A.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
98
Scuseria, Gustavo E.
Rice University
99
Hoover, William Graham
Ruby Valley Research Institute
100
Vilenkin, Alexander V.
Tufts University

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