Toshihide Maskawa - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2008
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Toshihide Maskawa

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2008
for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature
Together with: Makoto Kobayashi, Yoichiro Nambu
Citizenship
JapanJapanEmpire of JapanEmpire of Japan
Languages
Japanese
date of birth
2/7/1940
place of birth
Nagoya
date of death
7/23/2021
place of death
Kyoto
Lived
81 years

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occupation
  • professor
  • physicist
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • particle physics
educated at
  • Nagoya University
employer
  • Nagoya University
  • Kyoto Sangyo University
  • Kyoto University
  • Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe
  • University of Tokyo
member of
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 12/13/2010
  • Science Council of Japan
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