Historical place archive

Stanford in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Stanford in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels2 people1968–1974

Historical events in Stanford

1968

1968
Deep-Inelastic Electron Scattering
Jerome Isaac Friedman · Physics

Uses high-energy electrons to probe protons, revealing point-like constituents inside nucleons.

1974

1974
Electron-Positron J-Psi Discovery
Burton Richter · Physics

Leads the SPEAR electron-positron collider team that discovers the J-psi particle, demonstrating the power of lepton colliders for particle physics.

Provenance

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