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# Val Logsdon Fitch

(1923–2015)   Nuclear Physicist

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Val Logsdon Fitch was a nuclear physicist.

## Quick Facts About Val Logsdon Fitch

Born March 10, 1923

Died February 5, 2015

Profession Nuclear Physicist

## About Val Logsdon Fitch

American physicist... \| Val Logsdon Fitch 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 funda

##  Quotes by Val Logsdon Fitch

> [But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/val-logsdon-fitch/but-mainly-i-learned-in-approaching-the-measurement-of-new-phenomena/)

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> [Quality doesn't improve by sitting on things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/val-logsdon-fitch/quality-doesn-t-improve-by-sitting-on-things/)

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> [At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/val-logsdon-fitch/at-any-one-time-there-is-a-natural-tendency-among-physicists-to/)

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