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Fitch and Cronin share Nobel prize for CP violation

DEC 01, 1980

“For the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K mesons,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics to James W. Cronin of the University of Chicago and Val L. Fitch of Princeton University. This year the prize is worth $210 000.

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