Quotes by Burton Richter

About Burton Richter:


Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning 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. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.

Author Bio


  • NameBurton Richter
  • DescriptionAmerican physicist
  • BornMarch 22, 1931
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysicist
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Physics