Burton Richter Autographs

Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.
A native of New York City, Richter was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and was raised in the Queens neighborhood of Far Rockaway. His parents were Fanny (Pollack) and Abraham Richter, a textile worker. He graduated from Far Rockaway High School, a school that also produced fellow laureates Baruch Samuel Blumberg and Richard Feynman. He attended Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, then continued on to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1952 and his PhD in 1956. He then joined the faculty of Stanford University, becoming a full professor in 1967. Richter was director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 1984 to 1999. He was a senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences Emeritus of Stanford University.
As a professor at Stanford, Richter designed the SPEAR (Stanford Positron-Electron Asymmetric Ring) particle accelerator with the help of another Stanford physics professor, David Ritson. When eventually resources were secured, Richter led the building of SPEAR, with the support of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. With it he led a team that discovered a new subatomic particle he called a ψ (psi). This discovery was also made by the team led by Samuel Ting at Brookhaven National Laboratory, but he called the particle J. The particle thus became known as the J/ψ meson. Richter and Ting were jointly awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.
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Traded items with a signature of Burton Richter

The most expensive item with a signature of Burton Richter (Nobel Prize in Physics Burton Richter Signed FDC Dated 1963 Todd Mueller COA) was sold in January 2022 for $90.99 while the cheapest item (Burton Richter Signed First Day Cover) found a new owner for $1.30 in May 2010. The month with the most items sold (2) was November 2025 with an average selling price of $39.48 for an autographed item of Burton Richter. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2022 with $90.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $3.25 was March 2022. In average, an autographed item from Burton Richter is worth $30.00.

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Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	1976 Nobel Prize in Physics BURTON RICHTER Autographed Card 3x5 from 1977	$9.95
	1976 Nobel Prize in Physics BURTON RICHTER Orig Autograph from 1976!	$14.95
	3 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS AUTOGRAPH BOOKLETS~MARTIN PERL~BURTON RICHTER~DEISENHOFER~	$3.25
	Burton Richter Autograph, Nobel Prize Winner For Physics, 5x7. SP	$5.50
	Burton Richter Autographed Signed Cachet Envelope FDC AMCo COA 30996	$35.98
	Burton Richter Nobel Prize Physics SLAC J/ψ Meson Signed/Autographed Photo	$39.95
	Burton richter Signed 3x5 Card 1976 Nobel Prize in physics includes envelope	$39.00
	Burton richter Signed 3x5 Card 1976 Nobel Prize in physics includes envelope	$39.00
	Burton richter Signed 3x5 Card 1976 Nobel Prize in physics includes envelope	$39.00
	Burton richter Signed 3x5 Card 1976 Nobel Prize in physics includes envelope	$39.00
	Burton richter Signed 3x5 Card 1976 Nobel Prize in physics includes envelope	$39.00
	Burton richter Signed 3x5 Card 1976 Nobel Prize in physics includes envelope	$39.00
	Burton richter Signed 3x5 Card 1976 Nobel Prize in physics includes envelope	$39.00
	Burton richter Signed 3x5 Card 1976 Nobel Prize in physics includes envelope	$39.00
	Nobel Prize in Physics Burton Richter Signed FDC Dated 1963 Todd Mueller COA	$90.99