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Burton Richter (1931–2018) was an American physicist and university teacher. Born in New York City, he was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University. His fields of work included physics, ecology, and sustainable development.
Richter was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Philip Hauge Abelson Prize, and the Enrico Fermi Award. He died of heart failure in Palo Alto.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1931
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Beyond smoke and mirrors
- Beyond smoke and mirrors
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 5
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,605x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,753x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,367x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,095x
- A study of the conditions and mechanism of the diphenylamine reaction for the colorimetric estimation of deoxyribonucleic acid
· 1956 · cited 10,213x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1976
“for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind”
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Life and work
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