Piermaria Oddone

Piermaria J Oddone (born March 26, 1944 in Arequipa, Peru[1]) is a Peruvian-American particle physicist.

Pier Oddone
Pier Oddone.
Born
Piermaria Jorge Oddone

(1944-03-26) 26 March 1944
Arequipa, Peru
NationalityUnited States, Peru
Alma materPrinceton University
Known forFifth director of Fermilab
AwardsW.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Fermilab
Doctoral advisorMaurice Bazin, Alfred T. Goshaw

Oddone earned his bachelor's degree in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University 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 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and took up office on 1 July 2005.[2][3]

Oddone received the 2005 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics for the invention of the Asymmetric B-Factory to carry out precision measurements of CP violation in B-meson decays.[4]

In September 2012, Oddone announced he would retire on July 1, 2013, after 8 years serving as lab director.[5]

References
  1. "Piermaria Oddone - Array of Contemporary American Physicists". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  2. "19 November 2004 - Fermilab: Pier Oddone of Berkeley Lab Named Fermilab Director".
  3. "Berkeley Lab Media Advisory".
  4. APS citation>
  5. "Aurora, IL News - Aurora Beacon-News". Archived from the original on 2013-10-04.



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