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Burton Richter

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Burton Richter (1931-2018) was an American physicist. He led the team at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center that co-discovered the J/psi meson in 1974, alongside a Brookhaven National Laboratory team led by Samuel Ting, a discovery known as the November Revolution in particle physics. Richter and Ting shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery, and Richter later served as director of SLAC from 1984 to 1999.

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Birth Year
1931 1
Death Date
2018-07-18 1
Death Year
2018 1
Death Place
Palo Alto, United States 1
Nationality
United States 1
Birthplace
New York City, United States 1
Field
Field (category)
Physics 1
Field (category)
Ecology 1
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1. Burton Richter (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +2018-07-18T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +2018-07-18T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P20 (place of death): Palo Alto, United States
    Q47265
  • P19 (place of birth): New York City, United States
    Q60
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Burton Richter (Wikipedia)
  • Member Of: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Infobox, workplaces
    Infobox workplaces: Stanford University ; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Works In: Physics, Lead sentence
    Burton Richter (March 22, 1931, July 18, 2018) was an American physicist.
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