Physicist Pier Oddone has been named as the next director of Fermilab and will take the post on 1 July 2005. Oddone, currently deputy director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), will succeed physicist Michael Witherell, who announced in October 2003 that he planned to step down next July.
“I am delighted to announce the appointment,” said Frederick Bernthal, president of the Universities Research Association, a consortium of 90 research universities that operates Fermilab in Batavia, Illlinois. Oddone’s “stature as a distinguished particle physicist, his experience in the scientific operation of another great national laboratory, and his leadership abilities make him extremely well suited to keep Fermilab at the forefront of scientific excellence and to guide the lab during the critical years ahead.”
Oddone, 60, a native of Peru, is the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2005 Panofsky Prize for inventing the Asymmetric B-Factory. His undergraduate degree is from...
