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Burton Richter

1931 - 2018

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Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Burton Richter is the 181st most popular physicist (up from 232nd in 2019), the 669th most popular biography from United States (up from 922nd in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Physicist.

Burton Richter is most famous for his work in the field of particle physics. He is best known for his discovery of the J/psi particle, which was a significant discovery in the field of particle physics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Burton Richter ranks 181 out of 851. Before him are James Jeans, Julius von Mayer, Herbert Kroemer, Martin Lewis Perl, Richard E. Taylor, and Arthur Leonard Schawlow. After him are Isamu Akasaki, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Hans Geiger, and Georg von Békésy.

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Among people born in 1931, Burton Richter ranks 29. Before him are Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Josef Masopust, Don King, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Anatoly Dyatlov. After him are Annie Girardot, Johannes Rau, Alice Munro, Leonard Nimoy, D. B. Cooper, and Anne Bancroft. Among people deceased in 2018, Burton Richter ranks 29. Before him are Jean-Louis Tauran, Philip Roth, France Gall, Jens Christian Skou, Lys Assia, and Richard E. Taylor. After him are Günter Blobel, Avicii, Paul Bocuse, Billy Graham, Paul D. Boyer, and Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Burton Richter ranks 669 out of 20,380. Before him are Bill Hewlett (1913), George Herbert Mead (1863), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Tennessee Williams (1911), Angela Davis (1944), and Edwin Stanton (1814). After him are Harold Lloyd (1893), William E. Moerner (1953), Kamala Harris (1964), Richard Bach (1936), Albert Fish (1870), and James Avery (1945).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Burton Richter ranks 30. Before him are John Bardeen (1908), Joseph Henry (1797), George E. Smith (1930), Leon Cooper (1930), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), and Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921). After him are Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Douglas Osheroff (1945), George Smoot (1945), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), Hugh David Politzer (1949), and Kip Thorne (1940).

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