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Val Logsdon Fitch (March 10, 1923 – February 5, 2015) was an American nuclear physicist who, with co-researcher James Cronin, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental ...
Val Logsdon Fitch (born March 10, 1923, Merriman, Nebraska, U.S.—died February 5, 2015, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American particle physicist who was corecipient, with James Watson Cronin, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1980 for experiments conducted in 1964 that disproved the long-held theory that particle interaction should be ...
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Val Logsdon Fitch. James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor of Physics, Emeritus. Val L. Fitch, who spent all his professional life in Princeton, died in Princeton NJ February 2, 2015, one month shy of his 92 nd birthday. He was born in Nebraska on March 10, 1923 on a cattle ranch about 40 miles southeast of Wounded Knee, that his father ...
Feb 6, 2015 · View or share comments on a blog intended to honor Fitch's life and legacy. A towering figure in physics who helped shape our understanding of the universe, Princeton University emeritus professor and Nobel laureate Val Logsdon Fitch died peacefully Feb. 5 in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 91.
May 17, 2018 · In 1980, American nuclear physicist Val Logsdon Fitch (born 1923) was co-recipient with James Watson Cronin of the Nobel Prize for Physics. The two men received international recognition in the scientific community as a result of an experiment they conducted in 1964 that showed that certain sub-atomic reactions are not indifferent to time.
Feb 11, 2015 · By Dennis Overbye. Feb. 10, 2015. Val Fitch, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that revealed a surprising imbalance in the laws of nature and helped explain why the collision...
Val Logsdon Fitch (March 10, 1923 – February 5, 2015) was an American nuclear physicist who, with co-researcher James Cronin, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symm...
