Richter, Burton, 1931-2018

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Name (Hebrew)
ריכטר, ברטון, 1931-2018
Name (Latin)
Richter, Burton, 1931-2018
Other forms of name
Richter, Burton, 1931-
Date of birth
1931-03-22
Date of death
2018-07-18
Field of activity
Physics
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 11315452
Wikidata: Q192106
Library of congress: n 85820992
TAU10: 000505094
Sources of Information
  • The Author's Beyond smoke and mirrors, 2010.
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Wikipedia description:

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. This discovery was part of the November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.

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