Jonathan Dorfan

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Jonathan M. Dorfan, 2014

Jonathan Manne Dorfan (born October 10, 1947 in Cape Town ) is an American experimental particle physicist. From 1999 to 2007 he was director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and became president of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (founded in 2011) in 2010 , which he remained until his retirement at the end of 2016.

Dorfan studied physics at the University of Cape Town with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and received his doctorate in 1976 from the University of California, Irvine . From 1976 he conducted research at the SLAC, including the MARK II experiment (as co-speaker) and the BaBar experiment (technical director in the last years of construction). He was project director for the B-Factory (PEP II) at SLAC. In 1989 he was given a full professorship. In 1994 he became Deputy Director of SLAC and in 1999 Director. As SLAC director he recognized the increasing importance of astroparticle physics and founded the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology(KIPAC) and he was also involved in the founding of further joint institutes with Stanford University (Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), previously XLAM, and PULSE Institute for Ultrafast Physics and Technology). During his time as director, the SLAC was involved in the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the free-electron laser was built in the X-ray area Linac Coherent Light Source . In 2007 he resigned as SLAC director and assisted Stanford President John LeRoy Hennessy in liaising the university with the SLAC.

He was on the US Department of Energy's Advisory Board for High Energy Physics , the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and the Weizmann Institute , the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, the Italian SuperB Project, the Advisory Board of the Particle Data Group and Part of the advisory board for the International Linear Collider . He was Chairman of the International Committee on Future Accelerators and on the Executive Board of the Particles and Fields Division of the APS.

In 2016 he and David Hitlin , Fumihiko Takasaki and Stephen L. Olsen received the Panofsky Prize for their leading role in the BaBar experiment and Belle experiment, which demonstrated the CP violation in the B meson decay and the understanding of quark Mixing and quantum chromodynamics promoted (laudation).

Dorfan holds honorary doctorates from TU Dresden, the University of Cape Town and the University of Maryland and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 2017 he received the Order of the Rising Sun (gold and silver).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Panofsky Prize 2016
  3. ↑ Uta Bilow: Honorary doctorate for Prof. Jonathan Dorfan. In: Dresden University Journal . No. 14, 2009, p. 2 ( online as PDF; 3.2 MB).
  4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter D. (PDF; 575 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Dr. Jonathan Dorfan Awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, OIST November 8, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Dorfan, Jonathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorfan, Jonathan Manne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African-American experimental particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town