Burton Richter

Burton Richter
Burton Richter

Burton Richter 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.

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Date of Birth
March 22nd, 1931
Age
95
Birth Place
United States of America, New York
Date of Death
July 18th, 2018
Died Aged
87
Star Sign
Aries
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