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Kobayashi-Maskawa model CPT symmetry K meson subatomic particle symmetry quantum field theory Pauli exclusion principle isospin wave-particle duality flavour quark Higgs boson lepton weakly interacting massive particle

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Cronin, James Watson

James Watson Cronin

American physicist

Fitch, Val Logsdon

Val Logsdon Fitch

American physicist

Kobayashi Makoto

Kobayashi Makoto

Japanese scientist

Maskawa Toshihide

Maskawa Toshihide

Japanese physicist

Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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