Val Logsdon Fitch
Val Logsdon Fitch | |
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| Born | March 10, 1923 |
| Died | February 5, 2015 (aged 91) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Columbia McGill University |
| Known for | Discovery of CP-violation |
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| Fields | Particle physics |
| Institutions | Princeton |
Val Logsdon Fitch (March 10, 1923 – February 5, 2015) was an American nuclear physicist. For this discovery he and his student James Cronin received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics.
References
- 1 2 Fitch, V.L. (1981). "Val Fitch - Autobiography". Nobel web. Archived from the original on 2012-11-04. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
Other websites
- Photograph, Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
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- the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons Archived 2012-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
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