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James Cronin was an American physicist who made significant contributions to the field of physics. His work was important enough to earn recognition in the scientific community, though specific details about his particular discoveries or achievements would require additional context to fully explain.
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- 1931-09-29
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- 2016-08-25
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James Watson Cronin (September 29, 1931 – August 25, 2016) was an American particle physicist.
Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of kaons, that a reaction run in reverse does not merely retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the interactions of subatomic particles are not invariant under time reversal. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered.
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1931 births2016 deathsAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican nuclear physicistsCitation overkillFellows of the American Physical SocietyForeign members of the Royal SocietyForeign members of the Russian Academy of SciencesMembers of the United States National Academy of SciencesNational Medal of Science laureates