Dr. Michael
S. Witherell Vice Chancellor
for Research Michael Witherell holds a University of California
Presidential Chair in the Physics Department. He served
as Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab),
the largest particle physics laboratory in the country,
from July 1999 to June 2005, when he became Vice Chancellor
at UCSB. From 1981 to 1999, Dr. Witherell was a faculty
member in the UCSB physics department.
Dr. Witherell has
done research in particle
physics with accelerators at Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center (SLAC), and Cornell
Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, in addition
to Fermilab. In 1990, his work on
an experiment at Fermilab
studying charm quarks brought him the prestigious W. K.
H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental
Particle Physics, awarded
annually by the American Physical Society.
Dr. Witherell
was elected to membership
in the National Academy of Sciences
in 1998 for his work in the
application of new technologies that "profoundly influenced
all subsequent experiments aimed at the study of heavy-quark
states." In 2004 he received the U. S. Secretary of
Energy’s Gold Award, the highest honorary award of
the Department of Energy. He is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American
Physical Society.
Dr. Witherell graduated from the University
of Michigan in 1968 and
earned his Ph.D. in particle physics from the University
of Wisconsin in 1973. He was a postdoctoral
fellow and assistant professor
at Princeton University from 1973 to 1981 before moving
to UCSB.
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