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Politics is a lot tougher than physics.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Physics
Tougher
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Is the sky falling? No. It's maybe drooping a bit.
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Sky
Falling
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What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.
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Enjoyed
Plumbing
Experiment
Thoroughly
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Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
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Innovation
Laboratory
Renewal
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I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
Burton Richter / Physicist
New York
Abraham
Children
March
New Born I Was Born
Elder
Fanny
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So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?
Burton Richter / Physicist
Fund
Big Thing
Physical Sciences
Sciences
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Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Iran
Biggest Things
Join
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In 1960, I married Laurose Becker. We have two children: Elizabeth, born in 1961, and Matthew, born in 1963.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Matthew
Elizabeth
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The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'
Burton Richter / Physicist
Big Impact
Jane
Fonda
Island
Jane Fonda
Mile
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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 / Physicist
Decrease
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
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I've become interested in the impact of climate change on the world and the future of energy needs for the developing world.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Climate Change
Developing
Change Future World
Developing World
Energy Needs
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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 / Physicist
Exotic
Thrill
Equation
Integral
Solving
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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 / Physicist
Measurement
Mercury
Structure
Graduate
Graduate Student
Shift
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Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Mistake
Obsolescence
Sometimes
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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 / Physicist
Impervious
People Find Trying
Lots
Attacks
Beyond
Current
Model
Standard
Stood
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Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.
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Standard
Theories
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As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Energies
Modified
Standard
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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.
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Jobs
Community
Ideas
Bringing
Broader
Important Job
Lab
Regards
Scientific
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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 / Physicist
Technology
Chemistry
Convinced
Institute
Interesting
Massachusetts
Physics
Undecided
Years
Entered
Studies
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The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Arrows
Emissions
Nuclear
Sun
Wind
Arrow
Grasp
Highly
Shine
Variable
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Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
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Frontiers
Innovation
Laboratory
Long
Modern Science
Moving
Program
Renewal
Exist
Facilities
Required
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What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Devastation
Radiation
Release
Tsunami
Accident
Earthquake
Giant
Projected
Struck
Wrought
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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 / Physicist
Devoted
Directors
Energy
Energy Sources
Environment
Greenhouse Gases
International
Issues
Laboratory
My Time
Sustainability
Time I Am Energy
Time I Am Free
Particularly
Fraction
Gases
Greenhouse
Increasing
Involve
Sources
Stepping
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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. I learned this early in my career while I was leading the construction of the SPEAR facility.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Construction
Facility
Bringing
Broader
Important Job
Lab
Regards
Scientific
Spear
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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 / Physicist
Completing
Dissertation
Interaction
Laboratory
Quantum
Electromagnetic
Probe
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Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.
Burton Richter / Physicist
Technology
Energy
Needs
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