Aaron Lemonick (February 2, 1923 – June 19, 2003) was a

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professor and administrator who served as dean of the graduate school from 1969 to 1973, and as dean of the faculty from 1973 to 1989. Joseph Taylor, winner of the 1993

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in Physics, attributes his decision to study physics instead of mathematics to Lemonick's freshman physics course at Haverford.Aaron Lemonick, longtime faculty member and administrator, dies at age 80
/ref> Princeton awarded him the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching when he retired in 1994, and he received an honorary degree in 2001. Lemonick served in the

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during World War II, and later attended the

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as an undergraduate. He began his association with Princeton as a graduate student in physics and received his Ph.D. in 1954. He taught at Haverford College and became chair of the physics department there in 1957, as well as working as a research collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He became a member of the Princeton faculty as an associate professor of physics in 1961. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1964. He was the father of Science writer Michael D. Lemonick

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, the current president of Brown, who worked under Lemonick as a Princeton administrator, cites him as one of the major influences on her career. He was also a force behind the foundation of Princeton's

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program, as well as its

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department.

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