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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980

"for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"
James Watson Cronin Val Logsdon Fitch
James Watson Cronin Val Logsdon Fitch
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA		 Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
b. 1931 b. 1923
 
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