Burton Richter
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1976for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kindTogether with: Samuel C. C. Ting
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 3/22/1931
- place of birth
- New York City
- date of death
- 7/18/2018
- place of death
- Palo Alto
- Lived
- 87 years
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- educated at
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- end time: 1956
- Far Rockaway High School
- Mercersburg Academy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1977
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 2003
- JASON
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Physical Society
- National Academy of Sciences
- employer
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- start time: 1963
- end time: 2006
- Stanford University
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- field of work
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- sustainable development
- physics
- ecology
- occupation
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- physicist
- university teacher