Forty years ago, the world of physics was stunned by the discovery that nuclear beta-decay does not respect symmetry between left and right. But the credit for this conclusion has not been properly attributed.
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Kurti, N., Sutton, C. Parity and chivalry in nuclear physics. Nature 385, 575 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/385575a0
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