The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Val L Fitch
Title:
James S. McDonnell DistinguishedUniversity Professor of Physics
Affiliation:
Princeton University
Joseph Henry Laboratories
Princeton,New Jersey 08544 USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
2015
Award Discipline:
Physical Sciences
Award Year:
1993
Citation:
"For his pioneering experiments at the frontiers of physics, from his measurement of the properties of mu-mesons in nuclei to his co-discovery that nature violates a fundamental spacetime symmetry property; and for his leadership on National science policy."
Presented by President Clinton and Vice President Gore at a ceremony on the White House South Lawn, September 30, 1993.
Nobel Laureate:
Physics, 1980