Robert Rosner

Last updated
Robert Rosner
Robert Rosner.jpg
Born
Alma mater Harvard University
Scientific career
Fields Astrophysics
Institutions University of Chicago

Robert Rosner (born June 26, 1947) [1] is an astrophysicist and founding director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, where he is the William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics.

Rosner was the director of Argonne National Laboratory from 2005 to 2009. [2] Prior to this appointment, his research was focused primarily on astrophysical fluid dynamics and plasma physics problems. [2]

Rosner is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, [3] and also sits on the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . He was elected to serve as the 2023 President of the American Physical Society. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</span> National laboratory located near Berkeley, California, U.S.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is a federally funded research and development center in the hills of Berkeley, California, United States. Established in 1931 by the University of California (UC), the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by the UC system. Ernest Lawrence, who won the Nobel prize for inventing the cyclotron, founded the Lab and served as its Director until his death in 1958. Located in the Berkeley Hills, the lab overlooks the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Argonne National Laboratory</span> American science and engineering research laboratory in Illinois

Argonne National Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Lemont, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1946, the laboratory is owned by the United States Department of Energy and administered by UChicago Argonne LLC of the University of Chicago. The facility is the largest national laboratory in the Midwest.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexei Abrikosov (physicist)</span> Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walter E. Massey</span> Physicist, American businessman, college president

Walter Eugene Massey is an American educator, physicist, and executive. President Emeritus of both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and of Morehouse College, he is chairman of the board overseeing construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope. During his long career, Massey has served as head of the National Science Foundation, director of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), chairman of Bank of America, and as trustee chair of the City Colleges of Chicago. He has also served in professorial and administrative posts at the University of California, University of Chicago, Brown University, and the University of Illinois.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walter Zinn</span> Nuclear physicist (1906–2000)

Walter Henry Zinn was a Canadian-born American nuclear physicist who was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1956. He worked at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory during World War II, and supervised the construction of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, which went critical on December 2, 1942, at the University of Chicago. At Argonne he designed and built several new reactors, including Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, which went live on December 20, 1951.

The Kavli Foundation, based in Los Angeles, California, is a foundation that supports the advancement of science and the increase of public understanding and support for scientists and their work.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lee C. Teng</span> Taiwanese physicist

Lee C. Teng was a Chinese-born physicist known for his work with the Advanced Photon Source of the Argonne National Laboratory. He has made numerous contributions to the field of accelerator physics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Littlewood</span> British physicist

Peter Brent Littlewood, FRS is a British physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. He was the 12th Director of Argonne National Laboratory. He previously headed the Cavendish Laboratory as well as the Theory of Condensed Matter group and the Theoretical Physics Research department at Bell Laboratories. Littlewood serves as the founding chair of the board of trustees of the Faraday Institution.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eric Isaacs</span>

Eric Isaacs is an American physicist who is the 11th President of the Carnegie Institution for Science where he oversees the research and business functions across six research departments on the East and West coasts and observatories in Chile.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert G. Sachs</span> American theoretical physicist (1916–1999)

Robert G. Sachs was an American theoretical physicist, a founder and a director of the Argonne National Laboratory. Sachs was also notable for his work in theoretical nuclear physics, terminal ballistics, and nuclear power reactors. Sachs was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, chairman of the Academy's Physics Section, chairman of the Academy's Class I, and director of the Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago. Sachs was the author of the standard textbook Nuclear Theory (1953).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Felix Rosenbaum</span> American physicist and academic administrator

Thomas Felix Rosenbaum is an American condensed matter physicist, professor of physics, and the current president of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Previously, Rosenbaum served as a faculty member and Provost of the University of Chicago. He has also served as the vice president for research at Argonne National Laboratory.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Philip H. Bucksbaum</span> American atomic physicist

Philip H. Bucksbaum is an American atomic physicist, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science in the Departments of Physics, Applied Physics, and Photon Science at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He also directs the Stanford PULSE Institute.

Donald Harris Levy is an American chemical physicist on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Chicago, US. He is recognized as a leader in the development of supersonic jet cooling.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Juan J. de Pablo</span> Mexican American chemical engineer (born 1962)

Juan J. de Pablo is a chemical engineer, Liew Family professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. In 2018, he was appointed Vice President for National Laboratories at the University of Chicago, a title which later expanded to include Science Strategy, Innovation and Global Initiatives in 2020. As of 2021, he is Executive Vice President for Science, Innovation, National Laboratories and Global Initiatives at the University of Chicago. He is known for his research on the thermophysical properties of soft materials. He is currently the co-director of the NIST supported Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHIMaD). and former director of the UW-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matthew Tirrell</span> American chemical engineer (born 1950)

Matthew V. Tirrell is an American chemical engineer. In 2011 he became the founding Pritzker Director and dean of the Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) at the University of Chicago, in addition to serving as senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. Tirrell's research specializes in the manipulation and measurement of polymer surface properties, polyelectrolyte complexation, and biomedical nanoparticles.

Rick Stevens is a professor of computer science at the University of Chicago and associate laboratory director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at Argonne National Laboratory.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Giulia Galli</span> American condensed-matter physicist

Giulia Galli is a condensed-matter physicist. She is the Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the department of chemistry at the University of Chicago and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. She is also the director of the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials. She is recognized for her contributions to the fields of computational condensed-matter, materials science, and nanoscience, most notably first principles simulations of materials and liquids, in particular materials for energy, properties of water, and excited state phenomena.

Valerii Vinokur is a condensed matter physicist who works on superconductivity, the physics of vortices, disordered media and glasses, nonequilibrium physics of dissipative systems, quantum phase transitions, quantum thermodynamics, and topological quantum matter. He is a senior scientist and Argonne Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory and a senior scientist at the Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering, Office of Research and National Laboratories, The University of Chicago. He is a Foreign Member of the National Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Rolf Hendrik Siemssen was a Dutch-German nuclear physicist. He was a professor of experimental nuclear physics at the University of Groningen between 1971 and 1998. Siemssen was director of the Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut between 1972 and 1991.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ilke Arslan</span> Turkish American microscopist

Ilke Arslan is a Turkish American microscopist who is Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials and the Nanoscience and Technology division at Argonne National Laboratory. She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2009 and appointed to the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program in 2019.

References

  1. "Robert Rosner", Array of Contemporary American Physicists, American Institute of Physics , retrieved 2012-02-14
  2. 1 2 "Robert Rosner named Director of Argonne National Laboratory". University of Chicago . Retrieved 2007-05-31.
  3. "Gruppe 2: Fysikkfag (herunder astronomi, fysikk og geofysikk)" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters . Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  4. "Robert Rosner, 2023 APS President, Takes the Helm".