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. 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. More about Val Fitch
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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.The most expensive item with a signature of Val Fitch (Val Fitch (Manhattan Project) Single-Signed OAL Baseball (PSA/DNA)) was sold in January 2020 for $169.00 while the cheapest item (Val Fitch signature on card, blue ink) found a new owner for $0.99 in December 2012. The month with the most items sold (4) was February 2017 with an average selling price of $19.62 for an autographed item of Val Fitch. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2008 with $51.01 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was December 2012. In average, an autographed item from Val Fitch is worth $9.99.
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VAL FITCH (†2015) Nobel Prize 1980 Physics signed photo 4 x 6 autographed | $14.25 | ||
Val Fitch Nobel Prize Physics Manhattan Project Rare Signed Autograph FDC | $29.99 | ||
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VAL FITCH Nobel Prize Physics Signed 3.5 x 2 inch Card Autograph | $8.95 | ||
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