Richter Burton
Country United States
Category Physics
Year 1976

Richter Burton, 1931, Year won 1976, discovered the elementary particle "Psi"..

Burton Richter was born in New-York in 1931.

He received the 1976 Nobel prize in physics, together with Samuel Ting, for an experiment he conducted, in which a heavy elementary particle of a new kind had been discovered.

The discovery of “Psi” confirmed Glashow’s theory on the existence of a “c” quark, and gave empirical evidence to support the standard model of elementary particles.

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