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Burton Richter
BornMarch 22, 1931(1931-03-22)
Brooklyn, New York City
DiedJuly 18, 2018(2018-07-18) (aged 87)
Palo Alto, California
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionsStanford University
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Alma materMIT
Doctoral advisorBernard T. Feld[1][2]
Known forJ/ψ meson
Notable awardsE. O. Lawrence Award (1975)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1976)
Enrico Fermi Award (2010)
This person won a Nobel Prize
Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist. He was a Nobel Prize winner. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team. He co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.

Richter died on July 18, 2018 in Palo Alto, California at the age of 87.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Burton Richter (1956). Photoproduction of Positive Pions from Hydrogen by 265 MEV Gamma Rays. Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20140227003712/http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/12136/31848569.pdf. Retrieved 2014-02-20. 
  2. ↑ "PDS login". http://library.mit.edu/F/4G7YKPHGF7T49U357K9TQ1CJ81DCSTQN977HM3IDU4R5FQH5C5-46531?func=full-set-set&set_number=008083&set_entry=000002&format=999. 
  3. ↑ University, Stanford (2018-07-19). "Nobel Prize-winning physicist Burton Richter dies at 87" (in en-US). Stanford News. https://news.stanford.edu/2018/07/19/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-burton-richter-dies-87/. 

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