Burton Richter

Burton Richter
Born(1931-03-22)March 22, 1931
DiedJuly 18, 2018(2018-07-18) (aged 87)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMIT
Known forJ/ψ meson
SpouseLaurose Becker (m. 1960; 2 children)
AwardsE. O. Lawrence Award (1975)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1976)
Enrico Fermi Award (2012)
National Medal of Science (2012)
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Doctoral advisorBernard T. Feld[1][2]

Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018)[3][4] was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.

  1. ^ Burton Richter (1956). Photoproduction of Positive Pions from Hydrogen by 265 MEV Gamma Rays (PDF) (Thesis). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
  2. ^ "PDS login". library.mit.edu.
  3. ^ Weil, Martin (21 July 2018). "Obituaries - Burton Richter, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, dies at 87". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Nobel Prize-winning physicist Burton Richter dies at 87". Stanford News (Press release). Stanford News. 2018-07-19. Retrieved 2018-07-20.

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