Burton Richter (1931)
Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist.
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Burton Richter (1931)
Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist.
Why is Burton Richter remembered?
Every major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. Burton Richter was one of those people.
About Burton Richter
Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) 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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