[2] Aaronson went to the U.S. Army Air Corps and went on to fly many B-17 missions during World War II.
Aaronson received an honorary membership of the Japan Institute of Metals in 1996, and was then elected for the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Mehl Professor Emeritus at the Carnegie Mellon University before his death on December 13, 2005, after a lengthy illness.
[1] Aaronson has published more than 300 scientific papers for teaching and supporting his young colleagues, and has organized conferences that influenced with the field.
His well-known major contributions are about diffusional nucleation and growth, and the mechanisms of phase transformations.