James Cronin
- Born: September 29, 1931 (Chicago, Illinois)
Education
- 1951: BS, Southern Methodist University
- 1953: MS, University of Chicago
- 1955: PhD, University of Chicago (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1955–1958: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Assistant Physicist
- 1958–1962: Princeton University, Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1962–1964: Princeton University, Associate Professor of Physics
- 1964–1971: Princeton University, Professor of Physics
- 1971–1996: University of Chicago, Professor of Physics
- 1996–present: University of Chicago, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Physics
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1970: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1980: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1999: National Medal of Science
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
James Cronin, "The Discovery of CP Violation," in The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1997), 114-136
