William Aaron Nierenberg was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. He was a co-founder of the George C. Marshall Institute in 1984.
- Occupation
- physicist, nuclear physicist, earth scientist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 13, 1919
- Died
- September 10, 2000