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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.
Jul 19, 2018 · Burton Richter, the Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences, Emeritus, former director of the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics, died July 18 in Palo Alto. He was 87.
Apr 4, 2024 · Burton Richter (born March 22, 1931, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died July 18, 2018, Stanford, California) was an American physicist who was jointly awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physics with Samuel C.C. Ting for the discovery of a new subatomic particle, the J/psi particle.
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Jul 23, 2018 · Burton Richter, whose discovery of an unexpected particle revealed a new building block of matter and brought him a share of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics, died on Wednesday at Stanford...
Jul 20, 2018 · Burton Richter, a Nobel Prize–winning particle physicist who also exercised significant influence in scientific policy, died on 18 July, the laboratory announced yesterday. He was 87 years old. In 1974, Richter's key scientific discovery laid a cornerstone for physicists' standard model of fundamental particles and forces.
Aug 28, 2018 · Burton Richter, who died on 18 July, made that revolution possible by designing and building the positron–electron accelerator SPEAR and an innovative detector facility, both at the Stanford...
Jul 20, 2018 · Burton Richter, a renowned Stanford physicist and Nobel Prize winner, died Wednesday, July 18 in Palo Alto at the age of 87. Richter is best known for helping to discover a new particle that proved the existence of a fourth quark, known as the charm quark, for which he was awarded the Nobel.
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