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Val Logsdon Fitch

1923 - 2015

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Val Logsdon Fitch is the 193rd most popular physicist (down from 126th in 2019), the 716th most popular biography from United States (down from 456th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Physicist.

Val Logsdon Fitch is most famous for being the author of The Mother Earth News, a magazine that promotes sustainability.

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Among physicists, Val Logsdon Fitch ranks 193 out of 851. Before him are Georg von Békésy, Douglas Osheroff, George Smoot, Ilya Frank, Isidor Isaac Rabi, and Auguste Piccard. After him are George Francis FitzGerald, Igor Tamm, Hugh David Politzer, Horst Ludwig Störmer, Bertram Brockhouse, and Max Delbrück.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Val Logsdon Fitch ranks 24. Before him are Peter II of Yugoslavia, György Ligeti, Marcel Marceau, Mas Oyama, Queen Anne of Romania, and Franco Zeffirelli. After him are Jack Kilby, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Attenborough, Arvid Carlsson, Mauno Koivisto, and Alan Shepard. Among people deceased in 2015, Val Logsdon Fitch ranks 28. Before him are Richard von Weizsäcker, Laura Antonelli, Dusty Rhodes, Josef Masopust, Leonard Nimoy, and Kenan Evren. After him are Ulrich Beck, Khaled al-Asaad, Yoichiro Nambu, Manoel de Oliveira, Richard F. Heck, and Otto Carius.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Val Logsdon Fitch ranks 716 out of 20,380. Before him are Anne Bancroft (1931), Douglas Osheroff (1945), George Smoot (1945), Donald Davidson (1917), Tom Clancy (1947), and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981). After him are William Holden (1918), Harvey Cushing (1869), William Halsey Jr. (1882), Gwen Stefani (1969), Tony Lip (1930), and Jack Kilby (1923).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Val Logsdon Fitch ranks 34. Before him are Martin Lewis Perl (1927), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Burton Richter (1931), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Douglas Osheroff (1945), and George Smoot (1945). After him are Hugh David Politzer (1949), Kip Thorne (1940), Hugh Everett III (1930), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), and James Cronin (1931).

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