Burton Richter
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 7 years ago |
| Date of birth | March 22,1931 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Brooklyn |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | July 18,2018 |
| Died | Stanford Medical Center |
| Palo Alto | |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Known for | J/psi meson |
| Books | Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Enrico Fermi Award | |
| National Medal of Science for Physical Science | |
| Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science | |
| Spous | Laurose Becker |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| ID | 674080 |
Burton Richter Life story
Burton Richter was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976.