James Cronin
James Watson Cronin | |
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 Cronin at the 2010 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting | |
| Born | September 29, 1931 |
| Died | August 25, 2016 (aged 84) Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Southern Methodist University University of Chicago (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Nuclear physics |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics John Price Wetherill Medal National Medal of Science |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
James Watson Cronin (September 29, 1931 – August 25, 2016) was an American nuclear physicist. Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions are not the same as to fundamental symmetry principles (called CP violation).
Cronin died on August 25, 2016 in Saint Paul, Minnesota at the age of 84.
References
- ↑ National Science Foundation - The President's National Medal of Science
- ↑ "James Cronin, Nobel laureate who overturned long-accepted beliefs about the fundamental symmetry of laws of physics , dies at 84".
- ↑ Roberts, Sam (2016-08-31). "James Cronin, Who Explained Why Matter Survived the Big Bang, Dies at 84". The New York Times.
Other websites
- Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
- Cronin's Nobel lecture on CP Symmetry Violation
- James Watson Cronin at Nobel-winners.com
- James Cronin at nobelprize.org
- the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons. Archived 2005-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Short biography at the University of Chicago Archived 2008-01-23 at the Wayback Machine
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