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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 · Cronin was a University of Chicago professor who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1980 for his work on matter and antimatter. He also led the Pierre Auger Project, a global collaboration to study cosmic rays and particle physics.
Aug 31, 2016 · Aug. 30, 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...
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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 25, 2016 · James Watson Cronin. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980. Born: 29 September 1931, Chicago, IL, USA. Died: 25 August 2016, St. Paul, MN, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons”
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...
Aug 28, 2016 · James W. Cronin (University of Chicago) 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...
