"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"

Burton Richter

1/2 of prize
USA
born 1931
CA - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
AA - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
WA - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Samuel C.C. Ting

1/2 of prize
USA
born 1936
CA - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

AA - Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
WA - Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA

Additional Information:

• Nobel e-Museum Prize in Physics 1976
• Papers reporting the results of these two experiments were published in adjacent articles in the same journal.

Burton Richter:

• Burton Richter web site
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center page on Burton Richter’s experiment
• Papers in SPIRES-HEP by Burton Richter
• Some highly cited works by Burton Richter

Samuel C.C. Ting:

• Samuel C.C. Ting web site
• Brookhaven National Lab page on Samuel Ting’s experiment
• Papers in SPIRES-HEP by Samuel Ting
• Some highly cited works by Samuel Ting