Michael Witherell
Michael Stewart Witherell (born September 22, 1949 in Toledo , Ohio ) is an American experimental particle physicist , and since January 2016 Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley California.
Witherell graduated from the University of Michigan ( bachelor's degree in 1968) and graduated with a master's degree in 1969 and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1973 . He was then from 1973 to 1981 at Princeton University (first as an instructor, from 1975 as assistant professor) and from 1981 at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), first as assistant professor, from 1983 as associate professor and from 1986 as a professor. From 1999 to 2005 he was director of Fermilab , of which he had been a member of the Physics Advisory Committee since 1985. In 2005 he became Vice Chancellor for Research at UCSB. He did research primarily at Fermilab, but also at SLAC , Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Particle Physics Laboratory at Cornell University . In 1990 he received the Panofsky Prize for his work in the 1980s at the Fermilab on charm quarks . At Fermilab he developed new measuring instruments (silicon vertex detectors, high-speed data acquisition systems). In the 1990s he was involved in the SLAC's BaBar experiment .
Whitherell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society . In 2004 he received the United States Department of Energy's top award , the US Secretary of Energy's Gold Award.
In 1990 he received the third Panofsky Prize . From 1991 to 1993 he was also a member of the Physics Advisory Committee of the Superconducting Super Collider and from 1992 to 1996 the Scientific Policy Committee of the SLAC , most recently as chairman. From 1997 to 1999 he headed the Department of Energy's High Energy Physics Advisory Panel .
His wife Beth Witherell is a literary historian.
Fonts
- with Helen Quinn : The asymmetry between matter and antimatter. Scientific American, October 1998
Web links
- Page at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Fermi News, March 1999, appointing Witherell as director of Fermilab, PDF file
- Appreciation on the occasion of his appointment as Fermilab Director
- Biography at the APS
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Witherell, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Witherell, Michael S .; Witherell, Michael Stewart (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toledo , Ohio |