This page contains archived content on a former member of the Jefferson Lab leadership team.
Dr. John J. Domingo
Former Associate Director Emeritus of the Physics Division
Dr. John Domingo joined Jefferson Lab in 1987 as Associate Director of the Physics Division. He was attracted by the chance to help construct an exciting new research laboratory. Dr. Domingo's responsibilities included guiding the development of the three experimental halls with their complex spectrometers and detectors. He retired from this position in early 1997 but still played an integral role in the physics program at Jefferson Lab.
Dr. Domingo received a B.S. in Physics in 1955 from Caltech followed by a year's study in Goettingen, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar. In 1956 he returned to Caltech to begin his graduate studies, performing his thesis experiment at the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory. After several years of practical study in rebuilding VandeGraaf accelerators, Dr. Domingo received his Ph.D. in 1963. He then spent two years at the Bell Telephone Laboratory working on various problems on gaseous lasers, before moving to the University of Chicago to study ion mobility along vortex lines formed in rotating superfluid helium.
In 1966, Dr. Domingo moved to CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Switzerland to work with a group from the University of Oxford beginning investigations of the interaction of pi mesons with light nuclei at the CERN Syncrocyclotron. After spending seven years at CERN working in this field, he moved to the new high-intensity meson factory being constructed by the Swiss government at Villigen near Zurich. He spent 15 years at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Physics continuing the study of the reaction mechanism of medium-energy pi mesons with nuclei, as well as experimental studies in applied psychology when he assumed the post of director of experimental facilities in 1979.