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1 (of 5) Samuel C.C. Ting and his research team at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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2 (of 5) On 11 November, 1974, two research teams announced they had independently of each other discovered a new subatomic particle, J/psi. While the teams performed their experiments, the J/psi popped up as a bump in the data where none was expected.

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3 (of 5) SLAC's Burton Richter and MIT's Samuel Ting at a SLAC symposium in 1984, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the J/psi discovery.

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4 (of 5) Nobel Laureates in Physics assembled at Brookhaven National Laboratory in August 1996 (left to right): 1957 Laureate Tsung-Dao Lee, 1988 Laureates Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, and 1976 Laureate Samuel Ting.

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5 (of 5) Nobel Laureates in Physics assembled at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Standing (left to right): 1980 Laureates Val L. Fitch and James W. Cronin, and 1976 Laureate Samuel C.C. Ting. Sitting (left to right): 1957 Laureate Chen Ning Yang and 1944 Laureate Isidor Isaac Rabi.

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