PHYSICIST

Val Logsdon Fitch

1923 - 2015

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Val Logsdon Fitch (March 10, 1923 – February 5, 2015) was an American nuclear physicist who, with co-researcher James Cronin, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of K-mesons, that a reaction run in reverse does not retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Val Logsdon Fitch has received more than 197,006 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Val Logsdon Fitch is the 126th most popular physicist (up from 154th in 2019), the 456th most popular biography from United States (up from 657th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Physicist.

Val Logsdon Fitch is most famous for being the author of The Mother Earth News, a magazine that promotes sustainability.

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  • 200k

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  • 67.45

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  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 23.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Val Logsdon Fitch has had the most page views in the with 14,344 views, followed by Chinese (3,712), and Persian (2,076). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (203.04%), Haitian (131.85%), and Wu Chinese (98.94%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Val Logsdon Fitch ranks 126 out of 851. Before him are James Franck, Isamu Akasaki, Javier Solana, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Julius von Mayer, and C. V. Raman. After him are François Englert, Robert Coleman Richardson, Arno Allan Penzias, Frits Zernike, Ernst Abbe, and Laura Bassi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Val Logsdon Fitch ranks 19. Before him are Peter II of Yugoslavia, Irma Grese, Marcel Marceau, Nadine Gordimer, Mas Oyama, and György Ligeti. After him are Roy Lichtenstein, Carroll Shelby, Franco Zeffirelli, Jack Kilby, Richard Attenborough, and Yma Sumac. Among people deceased in 2015, Val Logsdon Fitch ranks 19. Before him are Helmut Schmidt, Anita Ekberg, Süleyman Demirel, Henning Mankell, Josef Masopust, and Laura Antonelli. After him are Kim Young-sam, Richard von Weizsäcker, Ulrich Beck, Leonard Nimoy, Lemmy, and Yitzhak Navon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Val Logsdon Fitch ranks 456 out of 20,380. Before him are O. J. Simpson (1947), George Herbert Mead (1863), Robert Johnson (1911), Viggo Mortensen (1958), Diana Ross (1944), and Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888). After him are William G. Morgan (1870), Danny Trejo (1944), Roy Lichtenstein (1923), Robert Zemeckis (1952), Ralph Lauren (1939), and Elinor Ostrom (1933).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Val Logsdon Fitch ranks 14. Before him are John Bardeen (1908), Clinton Davisson (1881), Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), and Joseph Henry (1797). After him are Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Kip Thorne (1940), Arthur Compton (1892), Hugh Everett III (1930), and Melvin Schwartz (1932).

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