Jonathan L. Rosner

Jonathan L. Rosner was a theoretical physicist known for his contributions to the field of particle physics, particularly in the areas of the Standard Model and quark dynamics.

Personal Life Jonathan Rosner was born in New York City in 1941 and grew up in Yonkers, New York, son of Albert Aaron and Elsie Augustine (Lincoln) Rosner.

His wife Joy, whom he married in 1965, is a handweaver. They have two children: Hannah (b. 1969) and Benjamin (b. 1979).

Education Jonathan attended Roosevelt High School. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Swarthmore College in 1962 and his PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1965 with Sam Treiman serving as his doctoral advisor.

Career After receiving his PhD, Rosner was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Washington from 1965 to 1967 and a Visiting Lecturer at Tel Aviv University from 1967 to 1969.

Rosner also made contributions to the understanding of the spectra and decay processes of mesons and baryons and to the understanding of the strong force through his work on quarkonium systems. In his later years, he focused on the study of tetraquarks and pentaquarks. In addition to his theoretical work, Rosner also actively engaged with experiments and had a long association with the CLEO experiment at Cornell University. University of Chicago Graduate Teaching Award (1996) John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2002)