Piermaria Oddone

Piermaria Jorge Oddone, called Pier Oddone, ( born March 26, 1944 in Arequipa, Peru ) is a Peruvian- American experimental particle physicists.

Oddone, who has Italian roots and was born in Peru, studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, bachelor's degree, 1965) and a doctorate in 1970 from Princeton University. As a post-doc, he was at Caltech in 1973 and then went to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBL), and also experimented at SLAC. 1984 to 1987 he headed the group that operated the first track drift chamber. 1987 to 1991 he was head of the physics department at LBL, and from 1989 Deputy Director of the laboratory. He became director of Fermilab, 2005.

Oddone is the inventor of the Asymmetric B -Factory -called accelerator facilities (which he proposed in 1987 ), with those at KEK in Japan ( Belle experiment ) and at SLAC ( BaBar ) is studied CP violation in B mesons. He is a founding member of the BaBar collaboration at SLAC.

In 2005 he received the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize.

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