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Val Logsdon Fitch
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Born | March 10, 1923[1] Merriman, Nebraska, U.S. |
Died | February 5, 2015 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. | (aged 91)
Fields | Particle physics |
Institutions | Princeton |
Alma mater | Columbia McGill University |
Known for | Discovery of CP-violation |
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.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fitch, V.L. (1981). "Val Fitch - Autobiography". Nobel web. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1980/fitch.html. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
Other websites
- Photograph, Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
- Research page from the Princeton University Physics department
- Val Logsdon Fitch
- the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons