Val Logsdon Fitch (1923-2022) was an American physicist best known for his groundbreaking work in the field of particle physics, particularly in the study of the violation of parity symmetry. In 1956, he and his collaborator, James Cronin, conducted experiments that demonstrated that certain weak interactions do not conserve parity, which was a significant finding in the understanding of fundamental forces in physics.
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