James Cronin

James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist. Cronin was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. 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 do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of kaons, that a ... more

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  • Sep 29, 1931 (age 78 years)

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Year Award Award Winner Winning work Notes/Description
  • 1980
  • for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons
  • 1999
  • For his fundamental contributions to the fields of elementary particle physics and astrophysics and his leadership in creating an international effort to determine the unknown origins of very high-energy cosmic rays.
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