Top 15 Quotes by James Cronin

The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.

During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.