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James Cronin

James Watson Cronin

American physicist.

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Statements about James Cronin

Sex or Gender

Male

Occupation

Physicist
Nuclear Physicist
University Teacher

Member Of

10 items
Royal Society
 (2007 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Start Time
: 2007
Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei
National Academy of Sciences
 (1970 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
Start Time
: 1970
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
 (2003 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Foreign Member
Start Time
: 2003
American Physical Society
The World Academy of Sciences
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Istituto Veneto Di Scienze, Lettere Ed Arti
American Philosophical Society
 (1999 - )
Start Time
: 1999

Country of Citizenship

United States

Date of Birth

9/29/1931

Instance Of

Human

Place of Birth

Chicago

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Given Name

James
Series Ordinal
:1
Watson
Series Ordinal
:2

Educated At

Southern Methodist University
University of Chicago
Highland Park High School

Employer

University of Chicago
Collège De France
University of Utah
Princeton University

Award Received

10 items
Nobel Prize in Physics
 (1980)
Together With
:
Val Logsdon Fitch
Award Rationale
: for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons
Award Rationale
: för upptäckten av brott mot fundamentala symmetriprinciper i neutrala K-mesoners sönderfall
Point in Time
: 1980
Prize Money
: 440,000 Swedish krona
John Price Wetherill Medal
 (1976)
Together With
:
Val Logsdon Fitch
Award Rationale
: For work in elucidating the symmetries of the physical laws and for fundamental discoveries implying the failure of time reversal invariance for elementary particles.
Point in Time
: 1976
National Medal of Science
 (1999)
Point in Time
: 1999
Doctor Honoris Causa From the Pierre and Marie Curie University
 (1994)
Point in Time
: 1994
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Honorary Doctorate of the University of Santiago De Compostela
 (2009)
Point in Time
: 2009
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
 (2007)
Point in Time
: 2007
Announcement Date
: 5/17/2007
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
 (1976)
Point in Time
: 1976
Guggenheim Fellowship
Honorary Doctor of the Marie and Louis Pasteur University
 (11/20/1998)
Point in Time
: 11/20/1998

Described by Source

Obálky Knih
URL
:bug2: http://wikiba.se/ontology#Url
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Vol. 12
Page(s)
:500
Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
Page(s)
:145

Date of Death

8/25/2016

Place of Death

Saint Paul

Field of Work

Nuclear Physics

Doctoral Advisor

Name in Native Language

James Watson Cronin

Family Name

Cronin

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Interested In

Particle Physics
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