biography
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Fitch, Val (Logsdon)
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Nuclear physicist, born in Merriman, Nebraska, USA. He became interested in physics when, as a US army serviceman, he was sent to work on the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, NM, in the early 1940s. He studied at McGill and Columbia universities, then joined Princeton University, where he did important work in particle physics. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with James Cronin in 1980 for their discovery of the violation of fundamental symmetry in certain subatomic processes. |
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