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  1. 1931- . US high-energy physicist who, in the
  2. 1960s, designed the Stanford Positron
  3. Accelerating Ring (SPEAR). In 1974 Richter
  4. used SPEAR to produce a new particle, later
  5. named the `psi' (psi) particle, thought to be
  6. formed from the charmed quark postulated by
  7. Sheldon Glashow. Richter shared the 1976
  8. Nobel Physics Prize with Samuel Ting.
  9.