Toshihide Maskawa
益川 敏英 Toshihide Maskawa | |
|---|---|
 Maskawa in 2008 | |
| Born | February 7, 1940 |
| Died | July 23, 2021 (aged 81) Kyoto, Japan |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Alma mater | Nagoya University |
| Known for | Work on CP violation CKM matrix |
| Awards | Sakurai Prize (1985) Japan Academy Prize (1985) Asahi Prize (1994) Nobel Prize in Physics (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | High energy physics (theory) |
| Institutions | Nagoya University Kyoto University Kyoto Sangyo University |
| Doctoral advisor | Shoichi Sakata |
Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide, February 7, 1940 – July 23, 2021) was a Japanese theoretical physicist. He is known for his work on CP-violation. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."[1]
Maskawa died on July 23, 2021 in Kyoto, Japan from jaw cancer at the age of 81.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ↑ ノーベル物理学賞受賞 益川敏英さん死去 81歳 (in Japanese)
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