Burton Richter
Burton Richter (born Mairch 22, 1931; deed Julie 18, 2018) wis a Nobel Prize-winnin American pheesicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alangside the Brookhaven Naitional Laboratory (BNL) team led bi Samuel Ting. This discovery wis pairt o the sae-cried November Revolution o pairticle pheesics. He wis the SLAC director frae 1984 tae 1999.
 Burton Richter | |
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| Born | 22 Mairch 1931 Brooklyn, New York Ceety |
| Dee'd | Julie 18, 2018 (aged 87) Stanford, Californie |
| Naitionality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Kent for | J/ψ meson |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Laurose Becker (m. 1960; 2 bairns) |
| Awairds | E. O. Lawrence Awaird (1975) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1976) Enrico Fermi Awaird (2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Stanford Varsity Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard T. Feld[1][2] |
References
eedit- ↑ Burton Richter (1956). Photoproduction of Positive Pions from Hydrogen by 265 MEV Gamma Rays (PDF) (Thesis). Retrieved 20 Februar 2014.
- ↑ MIT libraries Ph.D. Thesis record