Brookhaven National Laboratory Sally Dawson [1] is an American physicist who deals with theoretical elementary particle physics.

Dawson studied mathematics and physics at Duke University with a bachelor's degree in 1977 and at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1978 and a doctorate in 1981 with thesis advisor Howard Georgi and thesis Radiative Corrections to sin2θW.

From 2001 to the present, she is an adjunct professor at the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University.

[4] In 2004 Dawson was the chair of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society.

[2] In 2017 she, together with three collaborators, received the Sakurai Prize for, according to the laudation, "instrumental contributions to the theory of the properties, reactions, and signatures of the Higgs boson".