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Photo: Burton Richter, SLAC HEP Faculty

Burton Richter
Professor

E-mail: brichter@slac.stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 926-2601
Group: Director's Office
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Education

B.S.,1952; Ph.D., 1956, MIT.

Professional Academic History

Research Associate, Stanford, 1956-1960; Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Stanford, 1960-1963; Associate Professor, SLAC, 1963-1967; Professor, SLAC, 1967-present; Technical Director, SLAC, 1982-1984; Paul Pigott Professor, Physical Science, Stanford; Director, SLAC, 1984-1999.

Awards and Honors

Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University, 1974. DeShalit Lecturer, Weizmann Institute, 1975. E.O. Lawrence Medal (DOE), 1976. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1976. Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1977. Fellow, American Academy of Arts andSciences. Fellow, American Physical Society, and President, 1994. President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), 1999-2002. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member, European Physical Society. Executive Board International Council for Science (ICSU).

Research Areas

Experimental elementary particle physics; advanced accelerator systems; storage rings; linear colliders; energy.

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Last update on 26 Jan 2007 by McDunn