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.

Richter died on July 18, 2018 in Palo Alto, California at the age of 87.

References

Other websites
Nobelprize.org autobiography 
Nobel Lecture  (PDF format)
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 
Richter Burton,  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

Category:American physicists
Category:1931 births
Category:2018 deaths
Category:Scientists from New York City
Category:Nobel Prize in Physics winners