Nicholas Samios
- Born: March 15, 1932 (New York, New York)
Education
- 1953: AM, Columbia University
- 1957: PhD, Columbia University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1956–1959: Columbia University, Instructor in Physics
- 1959–1997: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Assistant Physicist to Senior Physicist
- 1975–1976: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chair, Division of Particles and Fields
- 1975–1981: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chair, Department of Physics
- 1981–1982: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Deputy Director, High-Energy and Nuclear Physics
- 1982–1997: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Director
- 1997–present: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Distinguished Senior Scientist
- 1998–2003: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Deputy Director, RIKEN BNL Research Center
- 2003–present: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Director, RIKEN BNL Research Center
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1982: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1993: American Physical Society, W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Published Resources
Nicholas Samios, "Early Baryon and Meson Spectroscopy Culminating in the Discovery of the Omega-Minus and Charmed Baryons," in The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1997), 525-541
