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