Burton Richter 1931–2018
A major figure in particle physics who shared the Nobel Prize for the co-discovery of the J/ψ meson.
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A major figure in particle physics who shared the Nobel Prize for the co-discovery of the J/ψ meson.
"People say that string theory doesn’t make predictions, but that’s simply not true."
He received many honours, including election to a fellow of the Royal Society and the Hughes Medal for his work at CERN on g-2.
His avid support for the International Centre for Theoretical Physics was based on his strong belief in science as a vehicle of peace and development.
Taylor was the co-recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of scaling in deep-inelastic electron–proton scattering.
Highly respected member of the French particle-physics community
A big loss for science and for a whole generation of particle theorists