Val Logsdon Fitch information

Val Logsdon Fitch
Val Logsdon Fitch
Born	March 10, 1923; Merriman, Nebraska
Died	February 5, 2015 (aged 91); Princeton, New Jersey
Education	Chadron State College; Northwestern University; Carnegie Mellon University; McGill University (BS); Columbia University (MS, PhD)
Known for	Discovery of CP-violation
Awards	E. O. Lawrence Award (1968); John Price Wetherill Medal (1976); Nobel Prize in Physics (1980); National Medal of Science (1993)
	Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	Manhattan Project; Princeton University;
Thesis	Studies of X-rays from Mu-Mesonic Atoms (1954)
Doctoral advisor	James Rainwater

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 symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of K-mesons, that a reaction run in reverse does not retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered. This demolished the faith that physicists had that natural laws were governed by symmetry.

Born on a cattle ranch near Merriman, Nebraska, Fitch was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II, and worked on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. He later graduated from McGill University, and completed his PhD in physics in 1954 at Columbia University. He was a member of the faculty at Princeton University from 1954 until his retirement in 2005.

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Val Logsdon Fitch

Born	(1923-03-10)March 10, 1923 Merriman, Nebraska
Died	February 5, 2015(2015-02-05) (aged 91) Princeton, New Jersey
Education	Chadron State College Northwestern University Carnegie Mellon University McGill University (BS) Columbia University (MS, PhD)
Known for	Discovery of CP-violation
Awards	E. O. Lawrence Award (1968) John Price Wetherill Medal (1976) Nobel Prize in Physics (1980) National Medal of Science (1993)
Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	Manhattan Project Princeton University
Thesis	Studies of X-rays from Mu-Mesonic Atoms (1954)
Doctoral advisor	James Rainwater