Val Logsdon Fitch

Val Logsdon Fitch
Born	March 10, 1923(1923-03-10) Merriman, Nebraska, U.S.
Died	February 5, 2015(2015-02-05) (aged 91) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
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.

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