Jonathan Manne Dorfan (born October 10, 1947) is a particle physicist and the President-Emeritus of the

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, Graduate University. He is a former director of the

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(1999–2007; SLAC). In 2010 he joined the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology as President. In 2017 he was awarded Japan's

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Education and career

He received his B.Sc. at the

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in 1969 and his Ph.D. from the

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in 1976. Thereafter he worked on various projects at the

(SLAC) including the

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and

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before becoming director in 1999. Dorfan was named president-elect of the

(OIST) Graduate University in

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in 2010, and he became president of the new university in November 2011. He has been credited with significantly expanding the faculty of the university, especially in the physical sciences.

Advisory boards

He has served on numerous advisory boards, including: *Graduate School of the

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(2019) *High Energy Physics Advisory Panel of the U.S. Department of Energy (1991-1994) *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

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awarded him an honorary doctorate. Dorfan was awarded the American Physical Society's 2016 W.K.H.

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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,

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and

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were co-awardees. 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"''.

References

External references

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