| Year | Student | Advisor | Thesis Title | ||||
| 1962 | AVRETT, EUGENE HINTON | Krook | Solutions of the Equation of Radiative Transfer | ||||
| 1965 | RYBICKI, GEORGE BRUNO | Krook | Transfer of Radiation in Stochastic Media | ||||
| 1967 | PALMER, PATRICK EDWARD | Lilley | Radio Frequency Recombination Spectra of Diffuse Nebulae | ||||
| 1968 | HEARN, DAVID RUSSELL | Fazio | A Search for Celestial Sources of Gamma Rays of Energy Greater than 100 MeV | ||||
| 1969 | MILDER, DAVID | Layzer | Rotating Stellar Systems | ||||
| 1969 | RIEKE, GEORGE HENRY | Fazio/Bainbridge** | A Search for Cosmic Gamma Rays by Detection of Atmospheric Cerenkov Radiation | ||||
| 1961 | SNYDER, RALPH BROCKETT | Layzer | Relativistic Energies in Isooelectronic Sequences | ||||
| 1971 | STEPHENS, TIMOTHY LEE, | Dalgarno | Quantum Mechanical Studies of Molecular Hydrogen | ||||
| 1971 | CAVRAK, STEPHEN JAMES JR. | Fazio/Purcell** | The Production of Atmospheric g Rays with Eg> 10 MeV | ||||
| 1972 | HIVELY, RAY MICHAEL | Layzer | Cosmology of a Cold Universe. | ||||
| 1972 | LEVINE, RANDOLPH HERBERT | Layzer | Heating of the Corona by Magnetic Acceleration of Thermal Particles. | ||||
| 1975 | BIENIEK, RONALD JAMES | Dalgarno | Theoretical Studies of Thermal Atomic Collisions Involving Electronic Transitions | ||||
| 1976 | ROSNER, ROBERT | Layzer | Some Aspects of Magnetic Field Dynamics in Astrophysical Plasmas | ||||
| 1979 | DA COSTA, LUIZ ALBERTO NICOLACI | Cameron | Effects of a Central Gas Cloud in Dense Stellar Systems. | ||||
| 1979 | SHORER, PHILIP | Dalgarno | Application of the Relativistic Random-Phase Approximation to the Photoexcitation and Photoionization of Atoms | ||||
| 1985 | BAND, DAVID LOUIS | Grindlay | Non-Thermal Radiation Mechanisms and Processes in SS433 and Active Galactic Nuclei | ||||
| 1985 | KAHN, RONALD NATHAN | Press | Topics in Inflationary Cosmology | ||||
| 1989 | GOODMAN, ALYSSA ANN | Myers/Shapiro | Interstellar Magnetic Fields: An Observational Perspective | ||||
| 1990 | COUGHLIN, KATIE MARY | Thaddeus | Quasi-Periodic Taylor-Couette Flow | ||||
| 1991 | COVAULT, CORBIN EDWARD | Grindlay | The Energenic X-ray Imaging Telescope Experiment: Instrument Development and Observations of Black Hole Candidates in Binaries | ||||
| 1991 | DIGEL, SETH WILLIAM | Thaddeus | Molecular Clouds in the Distant Outer Galaxy | ||||
| 1991 | ROGERS, ROBERT DERWARD | Press/Field | The Origins of the Cosmic X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Backgrounds | ||||
| 1993 | MOLLAGHABABA, REZA | Thaddeus | Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy of Three Highly Reactive Astrophysical Molecules: SiC, SiO, and C3H2 | ||||
| 1994 | SAVIN, DANIEL WOLF | Kohl | Absolute Measurements of Field Enhanced Dielectronic Recombination and Electron Impact Excitation | ||||
| 1995 | LIN, HUAN | Kirshner | The Las Campanas Redshift Survey | ||||
| 1995 | MANANDHAR, RAJ | Grindlay | Development of a New Detector for Hard X-Ray Observations of Non-Thermal Emission from Low- Mass X-Ray Binaries | ||||
| 1996 | EISENSTEIN, DANIEL | Loeb | Analytical Models for the Gravitational Formation of Objects in the Universe | ||||
| 1996 | LEBACH, DANIEL | Shapiro | Applications of Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry to Tests of General Relativity | ||||
| 1998 | KEETON, CHARLES | Kochanek | Using Gravitational Lenses to Study Galaxires and Cosmology | ||||
| 1999 | PERNA, ROSALBA | Loeb | Theoretical Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts | ||||
| 2000 | DAW, ADRIAN NIGEL | Parkinson/Smith | Measurement of the Radiative Lifetime of the 2s2 2p4 1So Metastable Level of Ne2+; a Study of Forbidden Transitions of Astrophysical Interest | ||||
| 2001 | CHOU, YI | Grindlay | Developments of EXITE2 and Timing Analysis of Ultra-Compact X-ray Binaries | ||||
| 2001 | FOX, DAVID CHARLES | Loeb | The Structure of Clusters of Galaxies | ||||
| 2002 | OZEL, FERYAL | Narayan | The Effects of Strong Magnetic and Gravitational Fields on Emission Properties of Neutron Stars | ||||
| 2002 | WONG, GLENN PATRICK | Shapiro | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments Using Laser-Polarized Noble Gas | ||||
| 2002 | JANZEN, PAUL HENRY | Kohl/Horowitz** | An Experiment to Measure Electron Impact Excitation of Ions that have Metastable States | ||||
| 2005 | ZHU, CHENG | Dalgarno/Lukin** | Gas Phase and Molecular Process | ||||
| 2006 | BABICH, DANIEL MICHAEL | Loeb | Cosmological Non-Gaussianity and Reionization | ||||
| 2007 | SCHULZ, ALEXIA EIRINN | White/Huth ** | Astrophysical Probes of Dark Energy | ||||
| 2007 | HOFFMAN, LAUREN | Loeb | Orbital Dynamics in Galaxy Mergers | ||||
| 2008 | GARG, ARTI | Stubbs | Microlensing Candidate Selection and Detection Efficiency for the Super MACHO Dark Matter Search | ||||
| 2008 | SHAFEE, REBECCA | Narayan/McClintock | Measuring Black Hole Spin | ||||
| 2009 | HICKEN, MALCOLM | C. Stubbs/R. Kirshner | Doubling the Nearby Supernova Type Ia Sample | ||||
| 2010 | SLATYER, TRACY ROBYN | Finkbeiner | Signatures of a New Force in the Dark Matter Sector | ||||
| 2010 | HIGH, FREDRICK WILLIAM | Stubbs | The Dawn of Wide-Field Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Surveys: Efficient Optical Follow-Up | ||||
| 2010 | GIRASH, JOHN ANDREW | Stubbs/Field | A Fokker-Planck Study of Dense Rotating Stellar Clusters | ||||
| 2013 | VISBAL, ELI | Loeb | |||||
| 2013 | PAN, TONY | Loeb | |||||
*Revised Dec 3, 2008. Does not include thesis students of SAO staff who have Physics Department appointments only.
**Advisor on record in the Physics Department