Burton Richter (born 22.03.1931) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1977). He was born in Brooklyn. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1952). From 1956 he has worked at Stanford University (professor from 1967 and president of the university from 1980) and from 1963 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
His research was in quantum electrodynamics, high-energy and elementary particle physics and accelerator technology. Independently of S. Ting he discovered (1974) the psi particles (Nobel Prize, 1976).
The E. Lawrence Medal (1975).