Burton Richter, Director of SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1984 to 1999.

(Born March 22, 1931) Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. A native of New York City, he attended MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1952 and his Ph.D. in 1956.

A professor at Stanford University, Richter built a particle accelerator called SPEAR (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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