J. W. Cronin

Research.com Recognitions

• 1999 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his fundamental contributions to the fields of elementary particle physics and astrophysics and his leadership in creating an international effort to determine the unknown origins of very high-energy cosmic rays.", Presented by President William Clinton in a White House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, March 14, 2000.
• 1982 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1980 - Nobel Prize for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons
• 1976 - John Price Wetherill Medal, Franklin Institute
• 1970 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1970 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1970 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1963 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)
• 1962 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects.

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta

  1160
  Citations

• Properties and performance of the prototype instrument for the Pierre Auger Observatory

  J. Abraham;M. Aglietta;I. C. Aguirre;M. Albrow

  1138
  Citations

• Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4x10(19) eV

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;C. Aguirre

  1116
  Citations

• The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

  A. Aab;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;M. Aglietta;E. J. Ahn

  860
  Citations

• Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 10(18) eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;E. J. Ahn

  846
  Citations

• Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above 10(18) eV

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;D. Allard

  808
  Citations

• The Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;C. Aguirre

  637
  Citations

• Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;M. Aglietta;C. Aguirre

  626
  Citations

• Production of hadrons with large transverse momentum at 200, 300, and 400 GeV

  J. W. Cronin;Henry J. Frisch;M. J. Shochet;J. P. Boymond

  619
  Citations

• The Pierre Auger Collaboration

  M Will;L Wiencke;B WilczyÅska;H WilczyÅski

  551
  Citations

• Depth of maximum of air-shower profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory. I. Measurements at energies above 10(17.8) eV

  A. Aab;P. Abreu;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;M. Aglietta;E.J. Ahn

  549
  Citations

• Update on the correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic matter

  P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;E. J. Ahn;D. Allard

  538
  Citations

• Observation of a large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays above 8 × 1018 eV

  A. Aab;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta

  465
  Citations

• Depth of maximum of air-shower profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory. II. Composition implications

  A. Aab;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;E. J. Ahn

  425
  Citations

• Production of hadrons at large transverse momentum in 200-, 300-, and 400-GeV p − p and p -nucleus collisions

  D. Antreasyan;J.W. Cronin;Henry J. Frisch;M.J. Shochet

  384
  Citations

• Measurement of the proton-air cross section at √s=57 TeV with the Pierre Auger Observatory.

  P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;E. J. Ahn;I. F. M. Albuquerque

  377
  Citations

• Muons in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Mean number in highly inclined events

  A. Aab;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;E. J. Ahn

  346
  Citations

• Upper limit on the cosmic-ray photon flux above 10**19-eV using the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

  J. Abraham;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;C. Aguirre

  341
  Citations

• Combined fit of spectrum and composition data as measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

  A. Aab;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta;M. Aglietta;I. Al Samarai;I. Al Samarai

  329
  Citations

• Observation of a Large-scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above $8 imes 10^{18}$ eV

  A. Aab;P. Abreu;M. Aglietta

  312
  Citations