Died 2016-08-25.
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James Cronin
James Watson Cronin was an American particle physicist.
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science · American particle physicist · physicist · nuclear physicist · university teacher · also James Cronin, James Watson Cronin, Cronin
Born 29 September 1931 · Died 25 August 2016 · Q193496
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2016· 2 entries
Cronin died on August 25, 2016, at the age of 84.
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Santiago de Compostela (2009).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2007).
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1999· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1999).
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Was awarded the National Medal of Science
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Marie and Louis Pasteur University (1998).
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Joined the faculty at the University of Utah on a half-time basis to work on ultra-high-energy cosmic ray physics and to jumpstart the Pierre Auger Observatory project
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (1994).
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1980).
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1976· 3 entries
Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1976).
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Won John Price Wetherill Medal (1976).
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For major experimental contributions to particle physics including fundamental work on weak interactions culminating in the discovery of asymmetry under time reversal
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1971· 1 entry
Moved back to the University of Chicago to become a full professor
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1955· 1 entry
Cronin joined the group of Rodney L
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1939· 1 entry
To Dallas, Texas, where his father became a professor of Latin and Greek at Southern Methodist University
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-09-29.
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