Burton Richter
Physicist, Academic
1931 –
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Who is Burton Richter?
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.
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- Born
- Mar 22, 1931
Brooklyn - Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Far Rockaway High School
- Mercersburg Academy
- Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
( - 1952) - Doctorate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
( - 1956)
- Employment
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
(1967 - ) - Director, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
(1984 - 1999) - Technical Director, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
(1982 - 1984) - Associate Professor, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
(1963 - 1967) - Assistant Professor, Stanford University
(1960 - 1963) - Research Associate, Stanford University
(1956 - 1960)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Lived in
- Queens
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on July 23, 2013
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