Jonathan Arons

{{Short description|American astrophysicist}}

Jonathan Arons (born 16 August 1943) is an American astrophysicist.

Arons is a native of Philadelphia, born on 16 August 1943. He attended Williams College, and graduated in 1965.{{cite news |title=Jon Arons: emeriti faculty |url=https://astro.berkeley.edu/people/jon-arons/ |access-date=1 February 2022 |publisher=Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley}} Arons completed a doctorate in astronomy at Harvard University in 1970 and split his postdoctoral research between Princeton University Observatory and the Institute for Advanced Study. He joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty in 1972, teaching within the astronomy department. From 1980, Arons was affiliated with the physics department as well.{{cite news |title=Jonathan Arons (E) |url=https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/jonathan-arons |access-date=1 February 2022 |publisher=Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley}} He is also a member of Berkeley's Theoretical Astrophysics Center.{{cite news |title=Jonathan Arons |url=https://tac.berkeley.edu/people/jonathan-arons/ |access-date=1 February 2022 |publisher=Theoretical Astrophysics Center, University of California, Berkeley}} In 1985, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society "[f]or theoretical contributions in the application of plasma physics and electrodynamics to the study of pulsars, quasars, interstellar and intergalactic matter."{{cite news |title=APS fellow archive |url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=A&year=2021&unit_id=&institution= |access-date=1 February 2022 |publisher=American Physical Society}}