Burton Richter is a physicist at Stanford University who was largely responsible for the design of the eight-billion electron-volt accelerator called the Stanford Positron-Electron Accelerating Ring (SPEAR). Designed to cause collisions between...

Richter was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 22, 1931. He developed an interest in science at an early age and attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his undergraduate education. He earned his B.S. in 1952 and remained at M.I.T. for...

1931- American physicist who advanced particle physics research methodology. Richter earned a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and directed development of the...

Burton Richter (born March 22 1931) is a 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. He was director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center...

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Gerhard Richter MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY Despite Robert Storr's brilliant effort to reclaim Gerhard Richter for human emotion in the artist's 2002 MOMA retrospective, the glassy chill of his work reasserted itself in his recent show at Marian Goodman Gallery. The exhibition fell...