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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Burton Richter

Title:

Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences, Emeritus and Director Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Affiliation:

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

2575 Sand Hill Road

Menlo Park,California 94025 USA

Affiliation:

Stanford University

Stanford,California 94025 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2018

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

2012

Citation:

"For pioneering contributions to the development of electron accelerators, including circular and linear colliders, synchrotron light sources, and for discoveries in elementary particle physics and contributions to energy policy."

Award presented by President Barack Obama at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on November 20, 2014.

Nobel Laureate:

Physics, 1976

 

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