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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976

"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"
Burton Richter Samuel Chao Chung Ting
Burton Richter Samuel Chao Chung Ting
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford, CA, USA		 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA, USA
b. 1931 b. 1936
 
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