Science · 1931–2016

James Cronin — Age, Birthday & Biography

Born: 29 September 1931 · Died: 25 August 2016 · Age at death: 84

How old was James Cronin when he died?

James Cronin died aged 84. He was born on 29 September 1931 and died on 25 August 2016.

Particle physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Did you know?He helped lead a project to build the world's largest telescope designed to detect high-energy cosmic rays hitting the Earth's atmosphere.

James Watson Cronin (September 29, 1931 – August 25, 2016) was an American particle physicist. Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles.

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