Michael Witherell to head Berkeley lab

Michael Witherell, a Toledo native, is the new director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, background, in Berkeley, Calif., effective March 1. Joint Genome Institute, part of LBNL, is one of the most advanced centers in genome sequencing in the world. BERKELEY LAB/ROY KALTSCHMIDT rom the hallways of St. Francis de Sales High School has emerged one of America's most prominent leaders in physics and energy research.