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- Burton Richter was born on March 22, 1931 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Pandora's Promise (2013) and West Wing Week (2010). He was married to Laurose Becker. He died on July 18, 2018 in Palo Alto, California, USA.
- SpouseLaurose Becker(1960 - July 18, 2018) (his death, 2 children)
- He was a physicist who shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for discovering a subatomic particle, the "charm quark." The co-laureate was Samuel C.C. Ting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- He attended MIT, where he was president of the chess club, and participated in wrestling, tennis, and football. He received a bachelor's degree and a doctorate. He then went to Stanford, where he became a full professor in 1967.
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