René Turlay was one of the four discoverers of charge-parity violation. In 1957, he joined the
CEA laboratory. His first work with the Saturne
synchrotron concerned the study of pi meson production in nucleon-nucleon collisions at 2.3 GeV. After his doctoral thesis, he went to
Princeton as a post-doc. From 1962 to 1964, René Turlay played a major role in all phases of the memorable experiment at
Brookhaven's accelerator where the
CP violation phenomenon in weak interactions was discovered. This work won the 1980 Nobel Prize. From the 1970s and until after he retired, Turlay worked regurlary at the
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in
Geneva on a number of different projects. ==References==