James Cronin

James Watson Cronin
Cronin at the 2010 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Born	(1931-09-29) 29 September 1931 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died	August 25, 2016(2016-08-25) (aged 84) Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Nationality	United States
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Chicago
Alma mater	Southern Methodist University University of Chicago (Ph.D.)
Known for	Nuclear physics
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physics John Price Wetherill Medal National Medal of Science

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).

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.
• Short biography at the University of Chicago