Samuel H. Aronson

Sam Aronson (May 14, 1942 – March 18, 2026 ) was an American physicist. He served as president of the American Physical Society in 2015 and was the director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 2006 to 2012.

Biography Aronson was born in Huntington, New York. He earned an A.B. in physics from Columbia University in 1964, and a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1968.

After graduation, Aronson worked at the Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies as a research associate until 1972. He later joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was on the faculty until 1977 before joining the accelerator department of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as associate physicist. He moved to the Lab's physics department in 1982, became associate chair of the department in 1987, then deputy chair in 1988.

Aronson was named senior scientist emeritus of the BNL in 2017. He is the Secretary of the National Offshore Wind R&D Consortium.

Aronson was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.