Born On Your Day
Val Logsdon Fitch
ENERGY.GOV, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

scientistTop tier

Val Logsdon Fitch

Scientist · born March 10, 1923 · died 2015

XWhatsAppFacebook

About

Val Logsdon Fitch 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…

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Milestones, by age

Dated facts from Wikidata; ages marked “about” come from year-only dates.

  1. ~57Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1980
  2. ~70Received the National Medal of Science1993

Sources

Every fact on this page traces to one of these.

Sources (2)

Also born on March 10

Val's most notable birthday twins

Osama bin Laden
entrepreneur

Osama bin Laden

Entrepreneur

1957–2011 · Saudi Arabia

Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his killing in 2011.

Hamid Mir, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Jon Hamm
actor

Jon Hamm

Actor

1971 · United States

Jonathan Daniel Hamm is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Don Draper in the period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), for which he won numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.

Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Full profile →

Sources (2)
Sharon Stone
actor

Sharon Stone

Actor

1958 · United States

Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress. Known for primarily playing femmes fatales and women of mystery on film and television, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1990s.

usbotschaftberlin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Full profile →

Sources (2)