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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. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered.Cronin received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 1976 for major experimental contributions to particle physics including fundamental work on weak interactions culminating in the discovery of asymmetry under time reversal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Cronin has received more than 198,830 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia. James Cronin is the 177th most popular physicist (up from 205th in 2019), the 796th most popular biography from United States (up from 947th in 2019) and the 31st 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 177 out of 717Before him are Igor Kurchatov, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Hannes Alfvén, Pyotr Kapitsa, Edward Mills Purcell, and Arthur Ashkin. After him are Charles H. Townes, Emilio Segrè, Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, Klaus von Klitzing, and Louis Néel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, James Cronin ranks 38Before him are João Gilberto, D. B. Cooper, Aldo Rossi, Syukuro Manabe, Johannes Rau, and Martinus J. G. Veltman. After him are James Earl Jones, Ike Turner, Larry Hagman, Caterina Valente, Kakuichi Mimura, and Khieu Samphan. Among people deceased in 2016, James Cronin ranks 37Before him are Carrie Fisher, Nancy Reagan, Věra Čáslavská, Bernardo Provenzano, Gene Wilder, and George Gaynes. After him are Walter Scheel, Hilary Putnam, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Michael Cimino, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and René Angélil.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Cronin ranks 796 out of 18,182Before him are Arthur Ashkin (1922), Laurence Fishburne (1961), George Foreman (1949), H. H. Holmes (1861), John Reed (1887), and Charlie Sheen (1965). After him are Sam Peckinpah (1925), Lee Marvin (1924), Charles H. Townes (1915), Joseph Campbell (1904), Robert Solow (1924), and Danny Glover (1946).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, James Cronin ranks 31Before him are Benjamin Thompson (1753), James Rainwater (1917), Leon Cooper (1930), Robert H. Goddard (1882), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), and Arthur Ashkin (1922). After him are Charles H. Townes (1915), Robert Hofstadter (1915), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), John L. Hall (1934), and Frederick Reines (1918).