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Jonathan M. Dorfan

born 1947

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Wikipedia Summary

Jonathan Manne Dorfan is a particle physicist and the President-Emeritus of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate University. He is a former director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. In 2010 he joined the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology as President. In 2017 he was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
October 10, 1947
Cape Town
Citizenship

South Africa

Occupations & fields
university teacherphysicist
Awards & honours
Panofsky Prizehonorary doctor of the University of Marylandhonorary doctorate of the University of Cape Town
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