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James Cronin

1931 - 2016

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Cronin has received more than 210,902 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). James Cronin is the 209th most popular physicist (down from 177th in 2019), the 800th most popular biography from United States (down from 796th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Physicist.

James Cronin is most famous for being a professional rugby player.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James Cronin ranks 209 out of 851. Before him are David J. Wineland, Mihajlo Pupin, Alain Aspect, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Robert Hofstadter, and Richard E. Taylor. After him are David J. Thouless, David Lee, Arthur Ashkin, Yoichiro Nambu, Abdus Salam, and Jerome Isaac Friedman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, James Cronin ranks 42. Before him are Aldo Rossi, Hiroto Muraoka, Riccardo Giacconi, Sri Chinmoy, William Shatner, and Jim Jones. After him are Nawal El Saadawi, David Lee, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Rorty, and Kakuichi Mimura. Among people deceased in 2016, James Cronin ranks 42. Before him are John Glenn, Harper Lee, George Kennedy, Vera Rubin, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Věra Čáslavská. After him are Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ray Tomlinson, Esma Redžepova, René Angélil, George Martin, and Michael Cimino.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Cronin ranks 800 out of 20,380. Before him are George Eastman (1854), John Goodman (1952), William Saroyan (1908), Leo Frank (1884), Frances McDormand (1957), and Harold Lasswell (1902). After him are Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Ted Kennedy (1932), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Pat Morita (1932), and Renée Zellweger (1969).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, James Cronin ranks 37. Before him are Edward Mills Purcell (1912), Steven Weinberg (1933), Michio Kaku (1947), David J. Wineland (1944), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), and Robert Hofstadter (1915). After him are David Lee (1931), Arthur Ashkin (1922), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), Leon Cooper (1930), Clifford Shull (1915), and Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915).

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