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The most comprehensive early history of the laboratory is Robert P. Crease, Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
Brookhaven is located in close proximity to Stony Brook University (formerly State University of New York, Stony Brook), and staff maintain collaborations with faculty there.
Laboratory Directors
- 1946–1948: Philip Morse
- 1948–1961: Leland Haworth
- 1961–1973: Maurice Goldhaber
- 1973–1981: George Vineyard
- 1982–1997: Nicholas Samios
- 1997–2001: John Marburger
- 2003–2006: Praveen Chaudhari
- 2006–2012: Samuel Aronson
Staff
- 1946–1948: M. Stanley Livingston, Chair, Accelerator Project
- 1946–1948: Philip Morse, Director
- 1947–1961: Leland Haworth
- 1947–1948: Assistant Director
- 1948–1961: Director
- 1948–1970: Samuel Goudsmit, Senior Scientist
- 1948–1984: Raymond Davis Jr., Scientist
- 1948–present: Ernest Courant
- 1948–1960: Associate Physicist to Physicist
- 1960–1989: Senior Physicist
- 1990–present: Distinguished Emeritus Scientist
- 1949–1970: Rodney Cool
- 1949–1959: Research Physicist
- 1960–1964: Chair, Department of High Energy Physics
- 1964–1970: Associate Director
- 1950–1962: Gerald Tape
- 1950–1951: Assistant to the Director
- 1951–1962: Deputy Director
- 1950–1979: Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber
- 1950–1958: Associate Physicist
- 1958–1962: Physicist
- 1962–1979: Senior Physicist
- 1950–2011: Maurice Goldhaber
- 1950–1960: Senior Scientist
- 1960–1961: Chair, Department of Physics
- 1961–1973: Director
- 1973–1985: Distinguished Scientist, Department of Physics
- 1985–2011: Distinguished Scientist Emeritus
- 1952–1955: Benjamin Chalmers Frazer, Research Associate
- 1953–1958: Robert Adair, Associate Physicist to Physicist
- 1954–1987: George Vineyard
- 1954–1961: Physicist to Senior Physicist
- 1961–1966: Chair, Department of Physics
- 1966–1967: Associate Director
- 1967–1972: Deputy Director
- 1973–1981: Director
- 1982–1987: Senior Physicist
- 1955–1956: Keith Brueckner, Physicist
- 1955–1958: James Cronin, Assistant Physicist
- 1956–1957: Gen Shirane, Associate Physicist
- 1956–1958: Melvin Schwartz
- 1956–1957: Research Associate
- 1957–1958: Associate Physicist
- 1957–1959: Gerald "Gary" Feinberg, Research Associate
- 1957–1965: Gian Wick, Senior Physicist
- 1957–1966: Arthur Poskanzer
- 1957–1959: Research Associate
- 1959–1966: Chemist
- 1958–1983: Benjamin Chalmers Frazer
- 1958–1967: Physicist
- 1967–1983: Senior Physicist
- 1959–present: Nicholas Samios
- 1959–1997: Assistant Physicist to Senior Physicist
- 1975–1976: Chair, Division of Particles and Fields
- 1975–1981: Chair, Department of Physics
- 1981–1982: Deputy Director, High-Energy and Nuclear Physics
- 1982–1997: Director
- 1997–present: Distinguished Senior Scientist
- 1998–2003: Deputy Director, RIKEN BNL Research Center
- 2003–present: Director, RIKEN BNL Research Center
- 1960–present: Robert Palmer
- 1960–1970: Researcher, Bubble Chamber Group
- 1970–1975: Deputy Leader, "Omega Group"
- 1974–present: Senior Physicist
- 1975–1982: Leader, "Omega Group"
- 1982–1983: Head, Magnet Division, Colliding Beam Accelerator (CBA) Project
- 1983–1986: Associate Director, High Energy Physics
- 1987–1996: Head, Center for Accelerator Physics
- 1994–present: Head, Advanced Accelerator Group
- 1997–1999: Spokesperson and Member, Executive Board, Muon Collider Collaboration
- 1961–1994: Ernest Warburton
- 1961–1963: Associate Physicist
- 1963–1968: Physicist
- 1968–1994: Senior Physicist
- 1962–present: Martin Blume
- 1962–1970: Associate Physicist to Physicist
- 1970–present: Senior Physicist
- 1981–1984: Associate Director
- 1984–1996: Deputy Director
- 1963–2005: Gen Shirane
- 1963–1968: Physicist
- 1968–2005: Senior Physicist
- 1964–2002: Victor Emery
- 1964–1967: Associate Physicist
- 1967–1972: Physicist
- 1972–2002: Senior Physicist
- 1969–1975: Leland Haworth, Consultant to the Director
- 1971–1997: Richard Casten
- 1971–1981: Assistant Physicist to Physicist, Nuclear Structure Group
- 1981–1997: Senior Scientist, Nuclear Structure Group
- 1978–2012: Samuel Aronson
- 1978–1979: Associate Physicist, Accelerator Department
- 1979–1982: Physicist, Isabelle Project, Accelerator Department
- 1982–1987: Physicist, Department of Physics
- 1987–1988: Associate Chair, Department of Physics
- 1988–1991: Deputy Chair, Department of Physics
- 1991–2001: Senior Physicist and Head, PHENIX Detector Project
- 2001–2005: Chair, Department of Physics
- 2005–2006: Associate Laboratory Director, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
- 2006–2012: Director
- 1982–1983: John McTague, Director, National Synchrotron Light Source
- 1983–1985: Susan Coppersmith, Research Associate
- 1983–present: Peter D. Johnson
- 1983–1986: Associate Physicist
- 1986–2000: Physicist
- 2000–present: Senior Physicist
- 2006–2007: Deputy Chair, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
- 2007–2008: Acting Chair, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
- 2008–present: Chair, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
- 1991–1994: Melvin Schwartz, Associate Director, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
- 1997–2001: John Marburger III, Director
- 2003–2006: Praveen Chaudhari, Director
- 2007–present: J. C. Séamus Davis, Senior Physicist
