Burton Richter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Burton Richter

American physicist

Date of Birth: 22-Mar-1931

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 18-Jul-2018

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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/? 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.