James Cronin
American physicist
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).[1]
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 |
Cronin died on August 25, 2016 in Saint Paul, Minnesota at the age of 84.[2][3]
References
change- ↑ 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
change- 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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