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James Cronin

1931 - 2016

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James Watson Cronin (September 29, 1931 – August 25, 2016) was an American particle physicist. 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. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of kaons, that a reaction run in reverse does not merely retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the interactions of subatomic particles are not invariant under time reversal. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Cronin is the 210th most popular physicist (down from 209th in 2019), the 790th most popular biography from United States (up from 800th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Physicist.

James Cronin is most famous for being a professional rugby player.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James Cronin ranks 210 out of 851Before him are Klaus von Klitzing, Karl Schwarzschild, Maurice Wilkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Edward Mills Purcell. After him are Francesco Maria Grimaldi, David Lee, Pyotr Kapitsa, Yoichiro Nambu, Joseph Rotblat, and Steven Weinberg.

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Among people born in 1931, James Cronin ranks 40Before him are D. B. Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Ian Holm, James Earl Jones, João Gilberto, and Rupert Murdoch. After him are David Lee, Larry Hagman, Aldo Rossi, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Richard F. Heck, and Guy Debord. Among people deceased in 2016, James Cronin ranks 39Before him are Walter Scheel, Elie Wiesel, Jerome Bruner, Kenny Baker, Harry Kroto, and Carrie Fisher. After him are Gabriele Amorth, Alvin Toffler, Junko Tabei, Andrzej Żuławski, Frano Selak, and George Kennedy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Cronin ranks 790 out of 20,380Before him are James Ivory (1928), Keith Jarrett (1945), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), William Alfred Fowler (1911), Edgar Cayce (1877), and Edward Mills Purcell (1912). After him are Paul D. Boyer (1918), David Lee (1931), James Woods (1947), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Benedict Arnold (1741), and Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, James Cronin ranks 40Before him are Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Kip Thorne (1940), Hugh Everett III (1930), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), and Edward Mills Purcell (1912). After him are David Lee (1931), Steven Weinberg (1933), Robert H. Goddard (1882), Melvin Schwartz (1932), Roy J. Glauber (1925), and Ralph Asher Alpher (1921).