What lots of people have been trying to do ever since is find what’s beyond the current Standard Model. So far, it has stood impervious to all attacks. Burton Richter Read Quote
For nuclear power to have a future, we’ll either need more Yucca Mountains or a way to decrease the stuff we put there. Burton Richter Read Quote
I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked. Burton Richter Read Quote
Total failure isn’t something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I’m pretty sure I’ll recognize it if it comes. Burton Richter Read Quote
During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes. Burton Richter Read Quote
During my years at the synchrotron laboratory, I had become interested in the theory of quantum electrodynamics and had decided that what I would most like to do after completing my dissertation work was to probe the short-distance behavior of the electromagnetic interaction. Burton Richter Read Quote
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases. Burton Richter Read Quote
While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. Burton Richter Read Quote
In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me. Burton Richter Read Quote
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. Burton Richter Read Quote