| Date of Birth | 22-March-1931 | |
| Place of Birth |
Brooklyn (United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division) |
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| Nationality | United States of America | |
| Profession | Physicist | |
| Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory 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. | ||
Awards by Burton Richter |
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| Check all the awards nominated and won by Burton Richter. | ||
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