Burton Richter

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
Born	(1931-03-22)March 22, 1931 Brooklyn, New York City
Died	July 18, 2018(2018-07-18) (aged 87) Palo Alto, California
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

1. 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.
2. "PDS login". library.mit.edu.
3. University, Stanford (2018-07-19). "Nobel Prize-winning physicist Burton Richter dies at 87". Stanford News. Stanford News. Retrieved 2018-07-20.

Other websites

• 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