Michael Stewart Witherell
Michael Stewart Witherell | |
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Witherell in 2025 | |
| 8th Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
| Assumed office March 1, 2016 | |
| President | Barack Obama Donald Trump Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Paul Alivisatos |
| 4th Director of the Fermilab | |
| In office July 1, 1999 – June 30, 2005 | |
| President | Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | John Peoples Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Piermaria Oddone |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 September 1949 (age 76) Toledo, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics (high-energy particle physics) |
| Institutions | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, Fermilab, Princeton University |
| Thesis | The eta-pion mass-spectrum from threshold to 1200 mev/c-square in the reaction negative pion-proton ---> (negative pion,eta-meson,proton) (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Prepost |
Michael Stewart Witherell (born 22 September 1949) is an American particle physicist and laboratory director. He has been the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2016, and will serve until 2026. Witherell, a particle physicist, previously served as Director of Fermilab. He previously served as professor and vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Santa Barbara.