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Burton Richter , 1931-, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956. A professor at Stanford Univ., Richter built a particle accelerator (Stanford Positron-Electron Asymmetric Ring) with the help of David Ritson and the support of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. With it he discovered a new subatomic particle called a psi-particle (now called a J-particle). The same discovery was made independently by Samuel Ting. The two scientists were jointly awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.

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Richter, Burton (1931– ) US physicist. Working with a very powerful particle accelerator, he discovered (1974) a new subatomic particle (which he named psi); it is a type of meson. For this work, Richter shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics with Samuel Ting, who had discoverd the same particle during independent experiments.

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