“for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons”
James Watson Cronin was an American particle physicist known for research on neutral K-mesons. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons. He was affiliated with the University of Chicago when awarded.
- Field
- Physics · Particle Physics
- Lifespan
- 1931–2016