​Jonathan Gill

Jonathan Gill, ’15, a National Merit Finalist, is an independent thinker who has an unquenchable thirst for learning in general and physics in particular. With unswerving devotion to his studies at Waldorf and to his outside-of-school pursuits, Jonathan has been a model of engaged learning. Jonathan spends his free time fencing, where he is nationally ranked at the Division I level in Foil. In addition to tutoring younger students at the Waldorf School, Jonathan spent much of his last year at neighboring Adelphi University where he engaged in optics research under the supervision of Professor Sean Bentley. He was also a fellow in the prestigious Simons Research Program at Stony Brook University, where he worked in the Laser Teaching Center with Dr. John Noe and Professor Harold Metcalf. In our School, Jonathan spent a great deal of time tutoring younger students, and was the recipient of the 2015 Parent Association Senior Scholarship. Jonathan is attending Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts.