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Burton Richter
Born22 Mairch 1931(1931-03-22)
Brooklyn, New York Ceety
Dee'dJulie 18, 2018 (aged 87)
Stanford, Californie
NaitionalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materMIT
Kent forJ/ψ meson
Hauf-marrae(s)Laurose Becker (m. 1960; 2 bairns)
AwairdsE. O. Lawrence Awaird (1975)
Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1976)
Enrico Fermi Awaird (2010)
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford Varsity
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Doctoral advisorBernard T. Feld[1][2]

Burton Richter (born Mairch 22, 1931; deed Julie 18, 2018) wis a Nobel Prize-winnin American pheesicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alangside the Brookhaven Naitional Laboratory (BNL) team led bi Samuel Ting. This discovery wis pairt o the sae-cried November Revolution o pairticle pheesics. He wis the SLAC director frae 1984 tae 1999.

References

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  1. Burton Richter (1956). Photoproduction of Positive Pions from Hydrogen by 265 MEV Gamma Rays (PDF) (Thesis). Retrieved 20 Februar 2014.
  2. MIT libraries Ph.D. Thesis record