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Burton Richter
Burton Richter 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. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.
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Born 22 March 1931 · Died 18 July 2018 · Q192106
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2026· 2 entries
“s best students. Every year, 1.5 million young Iranians take a national university entrance exam, or”
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2021· 1 entry
Published “2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure” in European Heart Journal — cited 12,211 times.
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2020· 1 entry
Published “2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)” in European Heart Journal — cited 8,262 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: <i>lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk</i>” in European Heart Journal — cited 7,905 times.
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2018· 2 entries
Died 2018-07-18.
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Published “2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension” in European Heart Journal — cited 8,317 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “2017 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation” in European Heart Journal — cited 7,936 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “deepTools2: a next generation web server for deep-sequencing data analysis” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 8,457 times.
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2014· 2 entries
Richter was among the residents of a continuing care retirement center who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against a continuing care retirement home's financial practices
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President Obama also awarded Richter the 2012 National Medal of Science
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2013· 2 entries
Published “Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer” in Nature — cited 8,822 times.
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Richter commented on an open letter from Tom Wigley, Kerry Emanuel, Ken Caldeira, and James Hansen, that Angela Merkel was "wrong to shut down nuclear"
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2012· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (2012).
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President Barack Obama announced that Burton Richter was a co-recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, along with Mildred Dresselhaus
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Enrico Fermi Award (2010).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Philip Hauge Abelson Prize (2007).
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1987· 1 entry
Richter received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1976).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1956).
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-03-22.
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