Burton
Richter
Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences, Emeritus and Director Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford University
2012
Physics
For pioneering contributions to the development of electron accelerators, including circular and linear colliders, synchrotron light sources, and for discoveries in elementary particle physics and contributions to energy policy.
Award presented by President Barack Obama at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on November 20, 2014.
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1976