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Michael Stewart Witherell
Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · United States
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Michael Stewart Witherell is the CEO of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Witherell is based in the United States. Witherell was born in 1949 in Toledo and educated at St. Francis de Sales High School and University of Michigan.
A particle physicist who has been Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2016. Previously served as Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and held the Presidential Chair in Physics at UC Santa Barbara. Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1949.
Key Facts
Source: Wikidata ↗- Born
- September 22, 1949 · Toledo
- Citizenship
- United States
- Education
- St. Francis de Sales High School, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Awards
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, Guggenheim Fellowship, Panofsky Prize
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- Who is Michael Stewart Witherell?
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