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Richter, Burton, 1931-
Oral history interview with Burton Richter, 2014 May 5-8.
In this interview, Burt Richter discusses his life and career. Topics discussed include: his childhood in New York City and early education at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Francis Bitter and Francis Friedman; Brookhaven National Laboratory; postdoc position at the High Energy Physics Lab at Stanford; Wolfgang Panofsky; his role in the design and construction of the first electron-electron colliding beam machine at Stanford; construction of the electron-positron collider and the resulting watershed research in November 1974 that led to his Nobel Prize in Physics; Sebastian Doniach and William Spicer; Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL); condensed matter physics; Keith Hodgsons structural biology program; CERN and the Linear Collider Project; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC); Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); the Fixed Target Program; Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL); Positron-Electron-Proton (PEP) Storage Ring; climate and energy policy.
Physicist. Stanford University Paul Pigott Professor of Physical Sciences and Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC); received his doctorate from Massachussetts Institute of Technology in 1956, and has been associated with Stanford University from that time to the present as Research Associate (1960-1963); Associate Professor, SLAC (1963-1967); Professor, SLAC (1967); Technical Director, SLAC (1982-1984); and Director, SLAC (1984-1999); Director Emeritus, SLAC, Stanford University from 1999. Received Nobel Prize in 1976 for co-discovery of the J/Psi particle.
Bitter, Francis, 1902-1967
Doniach, S.
Friedman, Francis L. (Francis Lee), 1918-
Hodgson, K. O. (Keith O.), 1947-
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Richter, Burton, 1931-
Spicer, W. E. (William E.)
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mercersburg Academy
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Linac Coherent Light Source.
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
W.W. Hansen Laboratories of Physics. High Energy Physics Laboratory
Colliders (Nuclear physics).
Condensed matter. fast
Energy policy.
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Bahls, Matthew, interviewer.
Stanford Historical Society
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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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