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Stanford physicist to lead new science institute in Japan

AUG 18, 2010
Physics Today
Chronicle of Higher Education : Jonathan Dorfan, a particle physicist and a former director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, will leave California later this summer to become the first president of the newly established Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. In a Q&A with the Chronicle‘s David McNeill, he explains what attracted him to the new job, which mainly entails building an international graduate research center from stratch.
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