Burton Richter (1931–2018)
Autore di Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
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Burton Richter was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 22, 1931. He received a bachelor's degree in physics in 1952 and a doctorate degree in physics in 1956 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Stanford University's High-Energy Physics Lab as a research associate and became an mostra altro assistant professor of physics in 1960. In 1963, he also took a position at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, one of the leading particle physics laboratories in the world. He was the laboratory director from 1984 to 1999. Richter and Samuel C. C. Ting received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 for discovering new particle they named J/psi. This finding revealed a new building block of matter. Richter's book, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century, was published in 2010. In 2014, he received the National Medal of Science. He died from heart failure on July 18, 2018 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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- Data di nascita
- 1931-03-22
- Data di morte
- 2018-07-18
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Palo Alto, California, USA
- Istruzione
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, PhD)
- Attività lavorative
- physicist
professor emeritus (Physics) - Organizzazioni
- Stanford University
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Nobel Prize (Physics, 1976)
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- Utenti
- 43
- Popolarità
- #352,016
- ISBN
- 14
- Lingue
- 1