Burton Richter, a Nobel Winner for Plumbing Matter, Dies at 87

Sunday, July 29, 2018 - 08:48 in Astronomy & Space

He shared the 1976 physics prize for the discovery of an unexpected particle, a building block of the universe, in a high-speed accelerator he had designed.

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