Burton Richter

Burton Richter was an American physicist and university teacher born in New York City in 1931. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a member of the faculty at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. His professional interests included physics, ecology, and sustainable development. He 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.

Richter 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 on July 18, 2018. His work is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection. He was described by the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia.