Fitch, Val L., 1923-2015
Val L. Fitch papers, 1940s-2000s.
Collection includes the correspondence, research materials, laboratory notebooks, awards, periodicals, printed materials, personal papers, conference materials, photographs, and related materials of Val L. Fitch.
American nuclear physicist. B.S., McGill University. Ph.D., Columbia University. Technician for Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory. Professor of physics and chair of Princeton physics department (1976-1981), Princeton University. President, American Physical Society (1988-1989). Member of Presidential Science Advisory Committee (1970-1973). Member and chair of the physics advisory committee, National Science Foundation (1980-1983). Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1980, as well as the National Medal of Science, the Witherell Medal of the Franklin Institute, the E.O. Lawrence Award of the Department of Energy, the Research Corporation Award and the Alumnus Award of the National Association of State Colleges and Universities.
Fitch, Val L., 1923-2015
Nobel Prize winners
Nuclear physicists.
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