Nobel prize to Richter and Ting for discovery of J/psi Available to Purchase

The 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Burton Richter of SLAC and Samuel C. C. Ting of MIT “for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.” Their surprising and far‐reaching discovery of the J/ψ particle was announced in November 1974 (PHYSICS TODAY, January 1975, page 17). The prize of $160 000, to be shared equally by Richter and Ting, was scheduled to be awarded on 10 December in Stockholm.