R.I.P. Dr. Val Fitch, 91. Nobel lauriate cosmologist

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"Val Fitch, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that revealed a surprising ambivalence in the laws of nature and helped explain why the collision of matter and antimatter has not destroyed everything in the universe, died on Thursday at his home in Princeton, NJ. He was 91. ..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/u...-to-be-out-of-balance-is-dead-at-91.html?_r=0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Logsdon_Fitch

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1980/fitch-bio.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...faa056-af21-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html

http://www.princeton.edu/physics/people/display_person.xml?netid=vfitch
 
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