Samuel Aronson

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Samuel H. "Sam" Aronson (born May 14, 1942 in Huntington , New York ) is an American experimental elementary particle physicist . From 2006 to 2012 he was Director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL for short) and President of the American Physical Society in 2015 .

Aronson studied physics at Columbia University until 1964 and received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1968 before moving to the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago that same year . In 1972 he went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was assistant professor there until 1977. In 1978 he moved to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he initially worked for a year in the local accelerator physics department as an associate physicist, before he was promoted to physicist in 1979 and moved to the physics department of the laboratory as such in 1982.

At first he mainly worked on kaon decays and later turned to the elastic scattering of neutrinos . He was also involved in the design of the ISABELLE proton accelerator, whose funding was ended in favor of the Superconducting Supercollider .

From 1991 to 2001 he was head of the PHENIX collaboration for research into quark-gluon plasma . He and his team also made important contributions to the DØ experiment at Fermilab , which - together with the CDF collaboration - discovered the top quark , among other things . In 2001 he became head of the physics department of the BNL and in 2005 he became Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics . As such, he oversaw the operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the largest particle accelerator at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Finally, in August 2006, he was appointed director of the BNL. He held this position until the end of 2012. He was succeeded by the American physicist Doon Gibbs . From 2013 to 2014 he served as Vice President and in 2015 as President of the American Physical Society .

He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2001 and was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science four years later .

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  1. ↑ SH Aronson, RH Bernstein, GJ Bock, RD Cousins, JF Greenhalgh: Measurement of the Rate of Formation of Pi-Mu Atoms in K L 0 Decay . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 48 , no. 16 , April 19, 1982, pp. 1078-1081 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.48.1078 ( aps.org [accessed May 13, 2019]).
  2. ↑ LA Ahrens, SH Aronson, PL Connolly, BG Gibbard, MJ Murtagh: Determination of electroweak parameters from the elastic scattering of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos on electrons . In: Physical Review D . tape 41 , no. 11 , June 1, 1990, pp. 3297–3316 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevD.41.3297 ( aps.org [accessed May 13, 2019]).
  3. ^ Virginia Profits: Sam Aronson, director, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York . In: Nature . tape 443 , no. 7111 , October 2006, ISSN  1476-4687 , p. 602 , doi : 10.1038 / nj7111-602a ( nature.com [accessed May 13, 2019]).
  4. ↑ D0 collaboration, VM Abazov, B. Abbott, M. Abolins, BS Acharya: Observation of single top quark production . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 103 , no. 9 , August 24, 2009, p. 092001 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.103.092001 ( aps.org [accessed May 13, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Aronson, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aronson, Samuel H .; Aronson, Sam (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American experimental elementary particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntington , New York