Nobel Prize in Physics 1980
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James Watson Cronin
Prize share: 1/2
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Val Logsdon Fitch
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 was awarded jointly to James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"
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