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Burton Richter was born on 22 March, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is an American physicist. Discover Burton Richter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 22 March, 1931
Birthday 22 March
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Date of death 18 July, 2018
Died Place Stanford, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1931

Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist.

1952

He attended Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, then continued on to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1952 and his PhD in 1956.

1967

He then joined the faculty of Stanford University, becoming a full professor in 1967.

1974

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.

1975

During 1975 Richter spent a sabbatical year at CERN where he worked on the ISR experiment R702.

1976

Richter and Ting were jointly awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.

1984

He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.

A native of New York City, Richter was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and was raised in the Queens neighborhood of Far Rockaway.

His parents were Fanny (Pollack) and Abraham Richter, a textile worker.

He graduated from Far Rockaway High School, a school that also produced fellow laureates Baruch Samuel Blumberg and Richard Feynman.

Richter was director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 1984 to 1999.

He was a senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences Emeritus of Stanford University.

As a professor at Stanford, Richter designed the SPEAR (Stanford Positron-Electron Asymmetric Ring) particle accelerator with the help of another Stanford physics professor, David Ritson.

When eventually resources were secured, Richter led the building of SPEAR, with the support of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

With it he led a team that discovered a new subatomic particle he called a ψ (psi).

This discovery was also made by the team led by Samuel Ting at Brookhaven National Laboratory, but he called the particle J.

The particle thus became known as the J/ψ meson.

1987

In 1987, Richter received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

Richter was a member of the JASON advisory group and served on the board of directors of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government.

2003

Richter was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003.

2007

In May 2007, he visited Iran and Sharif University of Technology.

2008

Richter is one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W. Bush in May of 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

2012

In 2012, President Barack Obama announced that Burton Richter was a co-recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, along with Mildred Dresselhaus.

2013

In 2013, Richter commented on an open letter from Tom Wigley, Kerry Emanuel, Ken Caldeira, and James Hansen, that Angela Merkel was "wrong to shut down nuclear".

2014

In 2014, President Obama also awarded Richter the 2012 National Medal of Science.

His citation read, "For pioneering contributions to the development of electron accelerators, including circular and linear colliders, synchrotron light sources, and for discoveries in elementary particle physics and contributions to energy policy."

In 2014, Richter was among the residents of a continuing care retirement center who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against a continuing care retirement home's financial practices.

2018

Richter died on July 18, 2018, in Stanford, California, at the age 87.