James W. Cronin, Nobel Laureate and Pioneering Physicist, 1931-2016
Monday, August 29, 2016 - 04:31
in Astronomy & Space
James W. Cronin, a pioneering scientist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1980 for his groundbreaking work on the laws governing matter and antimatter and their role in the universe, died Aug. 25 in Saint Paul, Minn. He was 84. Cronin, SM'53, PhD'55, spent much of his career at the University of Chicago, first as a student and then a professor.