Michael Stewart Witherell
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Michael Stewart Witherell (born 22 September 1949) is an American particle physicist and laboratory director.[1] He has been the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2016.[2][3] Witherell, a particle physicist, previously served as Director of Fermilab. He previously served as professor and vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Michael Stewart Witherell | |
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8th Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
Assumed office March 1, 2016 | |
President | Barack Obama Donald Trump Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Paul Alivisatos |
4th Director of the Fermilab | |
In office July 1, 1999 ā June 30, 2005 | |
President | Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
Preceded by | John Peoples Jr. |
Succeeded by | Piermaria Oddone |
Personal details | |
Born | 22 September 1949 (1949-09-22) (age 74) Toledo, Ohio, U.S. |
Alma mater | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics (high-energy particle physics) |
Institutions | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fermilab, Princeton University |
Thesis | The eta-pion mass-spectrum from threshold to 1200 mev/c-square in the reaction negative pion-proton ---> (negative pion,eta-meson,proton) (1973) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Prepost |
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