Burton Richter

Burton Richter
Born	(1931-03-22)March 22, 1931 Brooklyn, New York City
Died	July 18, 2018(2018-07-18) (aged 87) Palo Alto, California
Nationality	American
Institutions	Stanford University Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Alma mater	MIT
Doctoral advisor	Bernard T. Feld
Known for	J/ψ meson
Notable awards	E. O. Lawrence Award (1975) Nobel Prize in Physics (1976) Enrico Fermi Award (2010)

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.

Other websites

• Nobelprize.org autobiography Archived 2006-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Nobel Lecture Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine (PDF format)
• The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 Archived 2008-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Richter Burton, Nobel Luminaries Project, The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot
• SLAC press image
• Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy