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Burton Richter

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Gender Male
Death6 years ago
Date of birth March 22,1931
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Brooklyn
New York
United States
Date of died July 18,2018
DiedStanford Medical Center
Palo Alto
California
United States
Known forJ/psi meson
BooksBeyond 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
SpousLaurose Becker
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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.

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