| State | Total faculty | Subatomic Fraction |
|---|
| California | 312 | 0.45 |
|---|
| New York | 191 | 0.41 |
|---|
| Michigan | 165 | 0.38 |
|---|
| Ohio | 137 | 0.35 |
|---|
| Illinois | 116 | 0.42 |
|---|
| Texas | 111 | 0.40 |
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| Virginia | 103 | 0.47 |
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| Massachusetts | 92 | 0.34 |
|---|
| Alabama | 85 | 0.12 |
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| Arizona | 84 | 0.27 |
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Top ten states in physics support as measured by the number of
full time faculty in publicly supported PhD programs. Also
indicated is the fraction of subatomic faculty in these
programs. Data from 1989/90 AIP directory of physics faculties