Donald Newton Langenberg (March 17, 1932 – January 25, 2019)[1] was an American physicist, academic, and university administrator.

[3][4] Langenberg taught at the University of Oxford, the École Normale Supérieure, the California Institute of Technology, and the Technische Universität München and served on the board of trustees at the University of the District of Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.

[4] In 1980, he was named deputy director of the National Science Foundation by Jimmy Carter.

Among the awards he received are the John Price Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute and the Distinguished Contribution to Research Administration Award of the Society of Research Administrators.

[5] Langenberg died in January 2019, at the age of 86, at his home in the Dickeyville Historic District of Baltimore.