Burton Richter Scientist

Burton Richter (born March 22, 1931) is a Nobel Prize-winning 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. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.

Personal facts

Burton Richter
Birth dateMarch 22, 1931
Birth place
New York City , Brooklyn
Nationality
United States
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for
psi meson

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
Bernard T. Feld

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Burton Richter on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1976/index.html
  2. http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1976/richter-autobio.html
  3. http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1976/richter-lecture.pdf
  4. http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nif/seab1c.asp
  5. http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/richter.html
  6. http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0370&numPages=77&fp=N
  7. http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0371&numPages=34&fp=N
  8. http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0372&numPages=10&fp=N
  9. http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0373&numPages=20&fp=N
  10. http://www.osti.gov/cgi-bin/rd_accomplishments/display_biblio.cgi?id=ACC0374&numPages=21&fp=N