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 Brook haven 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.
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