James Cronin
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1980for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesonsTogether with: Val Logsdon Fitch
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 9/29/1931
- place of birth
- Chicago
- date of death
- 8/25/2016
- place of death
- Saint Paul
- Lived
- 84 years
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- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1970
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1999
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- start time: 2003
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 2007
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 10/5/2009
- The World Academy of Sciences
- Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
- Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Physical Society
- National Academy of Sciences
- occupation
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- nuclear physicist
- physicist
- university teacher
- employer
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- University of Chicago
- University of Utah
- Collège de France
- Princeton University
- field of work
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- nuclear physics
- educated at
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- Southern Methodist University
- University of Chicago
- Highland Park High School