Top 15 Quotes by James Cronin

The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.

The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.

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.

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.

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

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

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