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Val Logsdon Fitch ( Merriman, Nebraska, 10 de marzo de 1923- Princeton, Nueva Jersey, 5 de febrero de 2015) 1 fue un físico estadounidense galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Física en 1980.
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 ...
James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor of Physics, Emeritus Val L. Fitch, who spent all his professional life in Princeton, died in Princeton NJ February 2, 2015, one month shy of his 92nd birthday.
Val Logsdon Fitch was an American particle physicist who was corecipient, with James Watson Cronin, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1980 for experiments conducted in 1964 that disproved the long-held theory that particle interaction should be indifferent to the direction of time.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 was awarded jointly to James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"
Val Logsdon Fitch The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980. Born: 10 March 1923, Merriman, NE, USA. Died: 5 February 2015, Princeton, NJ, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons” Prize share: 1/2
Val Logsdon Fitch was born on March 10, 1923, on a cattle ranch in Cherry County, Nebraska, a few kilometres from the South Dakota border. Interested in the practical applications of science since his youth, Fitch actively entered the world of physics during World War II.
