The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976
Awarded on: 1976-10-18
"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"
Affiliations:
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center – Stanford, CA, USA
Burton Richter
Born: 1931-03-22 in Brooklyn, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist
Biography
Burton Richter 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. This discovery was part of the November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.