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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
1/2 of the prize
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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