Jonathan M. Dorfan

Jonathan Manne Dorfan (born October 10, 1947) is a particle physicist and the President-Emeritus of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate University. He is a former director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1999–2007; SLAC). In 2010 he joined the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology as President. In 2017 he was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun.[1]

Jonathan M. Dorfan
Born (1947-10-10) 10 October 1947
Cape Town, South Africa
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUC Irvine
University of Cape Town
Known forFormer Director, SLAC; Former President, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
AwardsOrder of the Rising Sun (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
InstitutionsSLAC

Education and career

He received his B.Sc. at the University of Cape Town in South Africa in 1969 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1976. Thereafter he worked on various projects at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) including the Mark II detector and BaBar experiment before becoming director in 1999.[2]

Dorfan was named president-elect of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University in Okinawa, Japan in 2010, and he became president of the new university in November 2011.[2] He has been credited with significantly expanding the faculty of the university, especially in the physical sciences.[3]

Advisory boards

He has served on numerous advisory boards, including:

  • Graduate School of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (2019)
  • High Energy Physics Advisory Panel of the U.S. Department of Energy (1991-1994)[2]
  • Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Physics (2000–present)
  • Board of Governors for the Weizmann Institute of Science (2005–present)
  • Accelerator Advisory Panel of the International Linear Collider Global Design Effort(2007-2010)
  • Machine Advisory Committee for Italy's SuperB Project (2008–present)
  • Advisory Board of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, Oxford University (2009-2010)
  • Board of Governors and Board of Councillors of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology(2010–present)

Awards

In 2008 he was awarded an honorary DSc from the University of Cape Town and in 2009 Technische Universität Dresden awarded him an honorary doctorate.[2]

Dorfan was awarded the American Physical Society's 2016 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics. The official citation states, "For leadership in the BABAR and Belle experiments, which established the violation of CP symmetry in B meson decay, and furthered our understanding of quark mixing and quantum chromodynamics". Drs. David Hitlin, Stephen Olsen and Fumihiko Takasaki were co-awardees.[4]

On 7 November 2017, the Emperor of Japan, awarded Dr. Jonathan Dorfan, President Emeritus of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, one of Japan's most distinguished national decorations. The official citation states that the decoration is in recognition of "contributions to the development of our nation's research and education in science and technology".[1]

References
  1. "Dr. Jonathan Dorfan Awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun". OIST.jp. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. 8 November 2017. Archived from the original on 17 November 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  2. "Jonathan Dorfan | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University". OIST.jp. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. Archived from the original on 2 December 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  3. Cyranoski, David (29 June 2011). "Okinawa goes recruiting". nature (474): 553. doi:10.1038/474553a. ISSN 0028-0836. Archived from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  4. Calder, Neil (16 October 2015). "OIST President Wins Particle Physics Prize". OIST.jp. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. Archived from the original on 14 January 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2019.

External references
Preceded by
Burton Richter		 SLAC Director
1999 – 2007		 Succeeded by
Persis Drell
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