Nobel Prize in Physics 1976
Nobel Prize in Physics 1976
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Burton Richter
Prize share: 1/2
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Samuel Chao Chung Ting
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 was awarded jointly to Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"
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