Cronin, James Watson

Cronin, James Watson, 1931-, American nuclear physicist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1955. Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of K-mesons, that a reaction run in reverse does not merely retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time.

James Watson is the name of:

• James D. Watson (born 1928), American biologist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
• James Watson (actor) (born 1970), British film and television actor
• James Watson (politician) (1750-1806), United States Senator from New York
• James Watson (soldier) (born 1850), American soldier, participant in the Battle of the Little Bighorn
• James Watson (trumpeter), English trumpet player, professor at the Royal Academy of Music
• James Watson (wrestler), professional wrestler, pseudonym Mikey Whipwreck
• James Watson (author), author from Lancashire
• James Cameron Watson (born 1891), Canadian politician, mayor of Calgary
• James Craig Watson (1838–1880), Canadian-American astronomer
• James Eli Watson (c. 1864–1948), United States Representative and Senator from Indiana
• James F. Watson (1840-1897), American judge and attorney
• James Lopez Watson (1922-2001), United States Federal judge, first black judge to head a federal court in the South
• James Sibley Watson (1894-1982), American philanthropist, publisher, and early experimenter in motion pictures

See also

• Jamie Watson
• Jim Watson (disambiguation)