The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980

James Watson Cronin

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Prize share: 1/2

Val Logsdon Fitch

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 was awarded jointly to James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons."

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