Val Fitch's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds

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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. The birth-card coordinate for March 10 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1980 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1980 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons

The King of Diamonds coordinate

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Val Fitch in the public record

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 PhD in physics in 1954 at Columbia University. He was a member of the faculty at Princeton University from 1954 until his retirement in 2005.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Val Logsdon Fitch (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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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.

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The King of Diamonds. March 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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