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Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1976 Burton Richter was born in 1931 in New York. After receiving his B.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he began his academic career as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University in 1956, becoming a professor there in 1967. In 1984, he was named Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and since 1999 he is Director Emeritus. His research has centered on high-energy particle physics with high energy electrons and electron-positron colliding beams. He has been a pioneer in colliding beam technology. In 1976, Richter received the Nobel Prize for Physics (with Samuel C.C. Ting) for the discovery of the heavy particle produced from the electron-positron collision which led to the completion of the quark model. The same year, he was also awarded the E.O. Lawrence Medal of the US Department of Energy. He has been President of the American Physical Society, and is or has been member of advisory committees to the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and many international laboratories (the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, and European laboratories including CERN in Geneva, DESY in Hamburg and the Max-Planck-Institut in Munich). He is a member of many international science associations, including the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, the European Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Given his interest in the industrial applications of scientific and technological research, he is also been a member of the advisory boards of various companies, including General Motors. His favourite quotation: "Knowledge is more than equivalent to force" (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784).

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