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James Watson Cronin (September 29, 1931 – August 25, 2016 [1]) was an American particle physicist. [2] [3] 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.
Aug 27, 2016 · James W. Cronin, a pioneering scientist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1980 for his groundbreaking work on the laws governing matter and antimatter and their role in the universe, died Aug. 25 in Saint Paul, Minn. He was 84.
James Watson Cronin was an American particle physicist, corecipient with Val Logsdon Fitch of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physics for an experiment that implied that reversing the direction of time would not precisely reverse the course of certain reactions of subatomic particles.
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Aug 31, 2016 · James W. Cronin, a physicist who shared a Nobel Prize for repudiating a fundamental principle of physics and explaining why the universe survived the Big Bang with anything in it, died on...
Sep 21, 2016 · James Cronin (1931–2016) Alan Watson. Nature 537 , 489 ( 2016) Cite this article. 10k Accesses. 28 Altmetric. Metrics. Particle physicist who helped to explain the dominance of matter in the...
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Aug 28, 2016 · James W. Cronin, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering a startling breakdown in what was assumed to be the immutable symmetry of physical law, thereby helping to explain the...
Aug 28, 2016 · James W. Cronin, a Nobel laureate and professor emeritus of University of Chicago, was remembered Saturday by one former colleague as “one of the gods of experimental science.” Theoretical physicist Chris Quigg met Cronin when he started working at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1974.
