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Val Logsdon Fitch

Val Logsdon Fitch
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Val Logsdon Fitch 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…

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  1. Daniel Carleton GajdusekSeptember 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008
  2. Freeman DysonDecember 15, 1923 – February 28, 2020
  3. George MostowJuly 4, 1923 – April 4, 2017
  4. Harish-ChandraOctober 11, 1923 – October 16, 1983
  5. René ThomSeptember 2, 1923 – October 25, 2002
  6. Val Logsdon Fitch (this page)March 10, 1923 – February 5, 2015

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