Val Fitch
- Born: March 10, 1923 (Merriman, Nebraska)
Education
- 1948: BE, McGill University
- 1954: PhD, Columbia University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1946–1947: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Staff Member
- 1954–1960: Princeton University, Instructor to Professor of Physics
- 1976–1983: Princeton University, Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor
- 1983–2005: Princeton University, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics
- 2005–present: Princeton University, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor Physics Emeritus
Other Positions
- 1944–1946: Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory, Member, Special Engineering Detachment, U. S. Army
- 1970–1973: President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), Member
- 1976–1981: Princeton University, Chair, Department of Physics
- 1987–1988: American Physical Society, President
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1961–1967: Member, Board of Trustees, Associated Universities, Inc.
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1966: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1980: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1993: National Medal of Science
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
Val L. Fitch, "The View from the Bottom," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists February (1975): 43-46.
Val F. Fitch, "The τ-θ Puzzle: An Experimentalist's Perspective," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 458-463
