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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.
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 was awarded jointly to Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"
Richter designed particle accelerators and carried out experiments that led to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the charm quark. Burton Richter, the Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical ...
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.
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 18, 2018 · Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Burton Richter. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976. Born: 22 March 1931, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Died: 18 July 2018, Stanford, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA, USA.
