"Nobel Prize in Physics" Val Fitch Hand Signed 2X3.5 Card JG Autographs COA

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Up for auction the "Nobel Prize in Physics" Val Fitch Hand Signed 2X3.5 Card.
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Val Logsdon Fitch
(March 10, 1923 – February 5, 2015) was an American
nuclear physicist
who, with co-researcher
James Cronin
, was awarded the 1980
Nobel Prize in Physics
for a 1964 experiment using the
Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
at
Brookhaven National Laboratory
that proved that certain
subatomic
reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of
K-mesons
, that a reaction run in reverse does not retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time. Thus the phenomenon of
CP violation
was discovered. This demolished the faith that physicists had that natural laws were governed by symmetry. Born on a cattle ranch near
Merriman, Nebraska
, Fitch was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II, and worked on the
Manhattan Project
at the
Los Alamos Laboratory
in
New Mexico
. He later graduated from
McGill University
, and completed his Ph.D. in
physics
in 1954 at
Columbia University
. He was a member of the faculty at
Princeton University
from 1954 until his retirement in 2005.