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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

 

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