Robert Rosner (born June 26, 1947) 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. He was the director of

Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory is a science and engineering research national laboratory operated by UChicago Argonne LLC for the United States Department of Energy. The facility is located in Lemont, Illinois, outside of Chicago, and is the l ...

from 2005 to 2009. Prior to his appointment as Argonne's director, his research was focused primarily on astrophysical

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and

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problems. Rosner is a member of the

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, and also sits on the Science and Security Board of the ''

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''.

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Robert Rosner bio
at Argonne National Laboratory Living people 1947 births People from Garmisch-Partenkirchen German emigrants to the United States American astronomers German astrophysicists Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Harvard University alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society {{physicist-stub