Val Logsdon Fitch

Val Logsdon Fitch
Born	March 10, 1923 (1923-03-10) Merriman, Nebraska
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	Princeton
Alma mater	Columbia McGill University
Known for	Discovery of CP-violation
Notable awards	John Price Wetherill Medal (1976) Nobel Prize in Physics (1980)

Val Logsdon Fitch (born March 10, 1923, Merriman, Nebraska) is an American nuclear physicist. For this discovery he and his student James Cronin received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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