Physics department celebrates Nobel laureate’s 85th birthday
Nobel laureates Philip Anderson and Val Fitch of Princeton, and James Cronin of the University of Chicago (photo: Brian Wilson)
From left, physics Nobel laureates Philip Anderson and Val Fitch of Princeton and James Cronin of the University of Chicago gathered March 13 at a tea hosted by the Department of Physics in Jadwin Hall celebrating Fitch’s 85th birthday.
As Princeton faculty members, Fitch and Cronin shared the Nobel Prize in 1980 for discovering violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of elementary particles called neutral K-mesons. Anderson won the Nobel in 1977 for fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
Cronin returned to Princeton to present a lecture on advances at the Auger experiment, an Argentina-based collaboration he started involving more than 250 scientists that has broken new ground in studying the highest-energy cosmic gamma rays that periodically zap the earth.
