death_place death_date birth_place birth_date known_for article_title name
princeton , new jersey 19 june 2003 philadelphia , pennsylvania 02 february 1923 dean -rrb- dean of the faculty -lrb- 1973 - 1989 -rrb- of the graduate school -lrb- 1969 - 1973 aaron lemonick
 aaron lemonick
aaron lemonick

aaron lemonick -lrb- february 2 , 1923 in philadelphia , pennsylvania -- june 19 , 2003 in princeton , new jersey -rrb- was a princeton university physics 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 nobel prize in physics , attributes his decision to study physics instead of mathematics to lemonick 's freshman physics course at haverford .
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 air force during world war ii , and later attended the university of pennsylvania 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 .
ruth simmons , 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 women 's studies program , as well as its molecular biology department .
