Piermaria Jorge Oddone (born March 26, 1944 in Arequipa,

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) is a

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vian- American particle

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

. Oddone earned his bachelor's degree in Physics at the

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in 1965 and a PhD in Physics from

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in 1970. From 1972, Oddone worked at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 1987 he was appointed Director of the Physics Division at Berkeley Lab, and later became the Laboratory Deputy Director for scientific programs. In 1987, he proposed the idea of using an Asymmetric B-factory to study the violation of CP symmetry in the decay of B-mesons. In the late seventies and early eighties, Dr. Oddone was a member of the team that developed the first Time Projection Chamber (TPC). This technology was subsequently used for many particle and nuclear physics experiments. He led the TPC collaboration from 1984 to 1987. He was appointed director of

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(Fermilab) and took up office on 1 July 2005. Oddone received the 2005

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in Experimental Particle Physics for the invention of the Asymmetric B-Factory to carry out precision measurements of

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in B-meson decays. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1990 ''"for significant research in elementary- particle physics and contributions to the development of apparatus as well as of the infrastructure required for future advances of the field"'' In September 2012, Oddone announced he would retire on July 1, 2013, after 8 years serving as lab director.

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* 1944 births Living people Particle physicists Peruvian people of Italian descent American people of Peruvian descent 21st-century American physicists MIT Department of Physics alumni Princeton University alumni Winners of the Panofsky Prize Peruvian physicists People associated with Fermilab Fellows of the American Physical Society {{US-physicist-stub