Burton Richter
American physicist
Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist. He was a Nobel Prize winner. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team. He co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.
Burton Richter | |
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Born | |
Died | July 18, 2018 | (aged 87)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | MIT |
Known for | J/ψ meson |
Spouse | Laurose Becker (m. 1960; 2 children) |
Awards | E. O. Lawrence Award (1975) Nobel Prize in Physics (1976) Enrico Fermi Award (2010) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Stanford University Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
Doctoral advisor | Bernard T. Feld[1][2] |
Richter died on July 18, 2018 in Palo Alto, California at the age of 87.[3]
References
change- ↑ Burton Richter (1956). Photoproduction of Positive Pions from Hydrogen by 265 MEV Gamma Rays (PDF) (Thesis). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ↑ "PDS login". library.mit.edu.
- ↑ University, Stanford (2018-07-19). "Nobel Prize-winning physicist Burton Richter dies at 87". Stanford News. Stanford News. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
Other websites
change- Nobelprize.org autobiography Archived 2006-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Nobel Lecture Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine (PDF format)
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 Archived 2008-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
- Richter Burton, Archived 2018-07-19 at the Wayback Machine Nobel Luminaries Project, The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot
- SLAC press image
- Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy