Val Logsdon Fitch

Val Logsdon Fitch (March 10, 1923 – February 5, 2015) was an American nuclear physicist. For this discovery he and his student James Cronin received the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics.^[1]

Val Logsdon Fitch
Born	(1923-03-10)March 10, 1923[1] Merriman, Nebraska, U.S.
Died	February 5, 2015(2015-02-05) (aged 91) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	Columbia McGill University
Known for	Discovery of CP-violation
Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	Princeton

References

1. Fitch, V.L. (1981). "Val Fitch - Autobiography". Nobel web. Archived from the original on 2012-11-04. Retrieved 2010-03-24.

Other websites

• Photograph, Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy

• Research page from the Princeton University Physics department
• Val Logsdon Fitch
• the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons Archived 2012-07-17 at the Wayback Machine