1931 - 2018
Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the November Revolution of particle physics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Burton Richter has received more than 220,719 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Burton Richter is the 235th most popular physicist (down from 229th in 2019), the 1,079th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,054th in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Physicist.
Burton Richter is most famous for his work in the field of particle physics. He is best known for his discovery of the J/psi particle, which was a significant discovery in the field of particle physics.
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Among physicists, Burton Richter ranks 235 out of 717. Before him are Carl von Linde, Nevill Francis Mott, Melvin Schwartz, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Jim Peebles, and Abdus Salam. After him are Sheldon Lee Glashow, Claude-Louis Navier, David J. Thouless, Ettore Majorana, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Johannes Rydberg.
1842 - 1934
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 229
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 230
1932 - 2006
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 231
1924 - 1998
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 232
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 233
1926 - 1996
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 234
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 235
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 236
1785 - 1836
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 237
1934 - 2019
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 238
1906 - 1959
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 239
1858 - 1937
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 240
1854 - 1919
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 241
Among people born in 1931, Burton Richter ranks 60. Before him are Sofia Gubaidulina, Stanislav Grof, Ronald Dworkin, Ettore Scola, Riccardo Giacconi, and Ivan Rebroff. After him are Arata Isozaki, Viktor Korchnoi, Alfred Brendel, Jean-Claude Carrière, Klaus Hasselmann, and Don King. Among people deceased in 2018, Burton Richter ranks 43. Before him are Bernard Lewis, V. S. Naipaul, Gudrun Burwitz, Barbara Bush, R. Lee Ermey, and Riccardo Giacconi. After him are Jens Christian Skou, Milena Dravić, Claude Lanzmann, Günter Blobel, Joël Robuchon, and Jean-Louis Tauran.
1931 - Present
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 54
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 55
1931 - 2013
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 56
1931 - 2016
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 57
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 58
1931 - 2008
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 59
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 60
1931 - 2022
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 61
1931 - 2016
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 62
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 63
1931 - 2021
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 64
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 65
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 66
1916 - 2018
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 37
1932 - 2018
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 38
1929 - 2018
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 39
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 40
1944 - 2018
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 41
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 42
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 43
1918 - 2018
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 44
1940 - 2018
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 45
1925 - 2018
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 46
1936 - 2018
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 47
1945 - 2018
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 48
1943 - 2018
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 49
Among people born in United States, Burton Richter ranks 1,079 out of 18,182. Before him are Peter Eisenman (1932), G. Stanley Hall (1846), Alicia Keys (1981), Ben E. King (1938), William Friedkin (1935), and Jody Williams (1950). After him are Cordell Hull (1871), Leo Fender (1909), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Dick Van Dyke (1925), Mark Felt (1913), and Ernie Hudson (1945).
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 1,073
1846 - 1924
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 1,074
1981 - Present
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 1,075
1938 - 2015
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 1,076
1935 - 2023
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 1,077
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 1,078
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 1,079
1871 - 1955
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 1,080
1909 - 1991
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 1,081
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 1,082
1925 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 1,083
1913 - 2008
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 1,084
1945 - Present
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 1,085
Among physicists born in United States, Burton Richter ranks 47. Before him are Roy J. Glauber (1925), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), George E. Smith (1930), Clifford Shull (1915), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), and Melvin Schwartz (1932). After him are Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), David Bohm (1992), Julian Schwinger (1918), David J. Wineland (1944), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), and Philip Warren Anderson (1923).
1925 - 2018
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 41
1930 - Present
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 42
1930 - Present
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 43
1915 - 2001
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 44
1903 - 1995
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 45
1932 - 2006
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 46
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 47
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 48
1992 - 1992
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 49
1918 - 1994
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 50
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 51
1899 - 1980
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 52
1923 - 2020
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 53