Val L. Fitch

(1923- ) born near Merriman, Cherry County, lived at Gordon. Physicist, educator, co-recipient of 1980 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries that helped explain the Big Bang Theory of creation and how matter was formed; elected to National Academy of Sciences in 1966, recipient of 1993 National Medal of Science; attended Chadron State College from 1940 to 1942. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, February 22, 1981, pp. 18-19 and Tyler Wasson ed, Nobel Prize Winners (Wilson, 1987) 326-328 and Who's Who in America, Vol 1 (2003) 1654.

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