birth_place image_size nationality work_institutions birth_date known_for spouse prizes image article_title name
brooklyn , new york city 200px american stanford university 22 march 1931 j / ψ meson laurose becker -lrb- m. 1960 ; 2 children -rrb- e. in physics -lrb- 1976 -rrb- enrico fermi award -lrb- 2010 o. -rrb- lawrence award -lrb- 1975 -rrb- nobel prize burton richter nsf crop.jpg burton richter
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burton richter

burton richter -lrb- born march 22 , 1931 -rrb- is a nobel prize-winning american physicist .
he led the stanford linear accelerator center -lrb- slac -rrb- team which co-discovered the j / ψ meson in 1974 , alongside the brookhaven national laboratory -lrb- bnl -rrb- team led by samuel ting .
this discovery was part of the so-called november revolution of particle physics .
he was the slac director from 1984 to 1999 .
