Jonathan M. Dorfan

Jonathan M. Dorfan
Born October 10, 1947 (1947-10-10) (age 71)
Cape Town, South Africa
Residence United States
Citizenship United States
Alma mater UC Irvine
University of Cape Town
Known for Former Director, SLAC; Former President, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Scientific career
Fields Particle physics
Institutions SLAC

Jonathan Manne Dorfan (born October 10, 1947) is a particle physicist and the former president of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate University. He is a former director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1999–2007; SLAC). 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 SLAC including MARK II and BaBar before becoming director in 1999. He has served on numerous advisory boards, including the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Physics, the Board of Governors for the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Accelerator Advisory Panel of the International Linear Collider Global Design Effort, the Machine Advisory Committee for Italy's SuperB Project, the Advisory Board of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, and the Board of Governors and Board of Councilors of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.

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. He has been credited with significantly expanding the faculty of the university, especially in the physical sciences.

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.(https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2015/10/16/oist-president-wins-particle-physics-prize)

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”. (https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2017/11/2/dr-jonathan-dorfan-awarded-japan’s-order-rising-sun)

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


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