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James Cronin [1931-0] American

Rank: 110
Physicist

James Watson Cronin was an American particle physicist.
Cronin was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

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On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.		101
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.		102
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.		103
I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.		104
During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.		105
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.		106
My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.		107
While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.		108
When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.		109
The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.		110
The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.		111
Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.	Christmas	112
In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.		113
In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.		114
I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.		115

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