James Cronin shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering a violation of fundamental symmetry principles in neutral kaon decays. The result demonstrated that the combined charge conjugation and parity symmetry is not exact.
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James Watson Cronin
Nobel Prize history for James Watson Cronin based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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