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James Cronin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist. Cronin was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Cronin and co-researc...
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I was born on September 29, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, while my father, James Farley Cronin, was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. He was a student of classical languages. My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.
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; James Watson Cronin; (1931) ... Cronin graduated from Southern Methodist University at Dallas, Texas, in 1951 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1955. He then joined the staff of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., and in 1958 became a professor at Princeton University.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cronin, James Watson. Cronin, James Watson. Information about Cronin, James Watson in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... The discovery for which Fitch and Cronin received the Nobel Prize was first published in 1964, and at that time was regarded as a bombshell in the field of particle...
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Encyclopedia article about Cronin, James Watson. Information about Cronin, James Watson in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... 1931–, American nuclear physicist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1955. Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch...
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CRONIN, JAMES WATSON ; E-mail : jwc (AT) uchep.uchicago.edu; University Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of Chicago; ... Research Interests : in a series of experiments conducted at Brookhaven in 1964, Cronin and his colleague Fitch showed that in rare instances subatomic particles called K mesons violate...
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Contribution : in a series of experiments conducted at Brookhaven in 1964, Cronin and his colleague Fitch showed that in rare instances subatomic particles called K mesons violate CP symmetry during their decay. Important contribution to the understanding of the principles of symmetry governing elementary particles.
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Cronin, James Watson - 1931—, American nuclear physicist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1955. Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964... ... Yahoo! Education > Reference > Encyclopedia > Cronin, James Watson...
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