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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1970s (104) 1976 (9) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1930s (112) 1931 (14) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth North America (290) United States (268) Northeastern states (100) New York (67) New York City (56) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 2010s (99) 2018 (16) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death North America (223) United States (214) Western states (63) California (53) Palo Alto (7) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) B (24) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name L-R (258) R (44) 23. Religion 23. Religion Religious group (353) Judaism (160) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 40 - 49 (140) 46 (13) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 33. Ethnic Origins 33. Ethnic Origins Asia (244) Middle East (197) Israel (197) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) United States (307) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University North America (309) United States (303) Western states (85) California (81) Stanford (22) Stanford University (22) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University North America (529) United States (521) Northeastern states (374) Massachusetts (226) Cambridge (217) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (93) Alumni (38) Western states (262) California (253) Stanford (83) Stanford University (83) Long-term academic staff (46) 43. Affilliation with Secondary School 43. Affilliation with Secondary School North America (80) United States (78) Northeastern states (46) New York (38) New York City (35) Queens (8) Far Rockaway High School (3) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) American Association for the Advancement of Science (95) American Physical Society (113) E-P (571) N (352) National Academy of Sciences (334) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) A (285) AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize (3) E-F (439) E (135) Enrico Fermi Award (9) M-N (333) N (205) National Medal of Science (101) complete name: Burton Richter nobel prize: physics award year: 1976 together with: Samuel C. C. Ting prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 was awarded jointly to Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Burton family name: Richter occupation: physicist occupation: university teacher field of work: physics work location: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, California, United States of America description: Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning 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. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1976/summary/> date birth: 1931 date death: 2018 usual name: Burton Richter