Toshihide Maskawa

Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide, 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) was a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of 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."

益川 敏英
Toshihide Maskawa
Maskawa in 2008
Born(1940-02-07)7 February 1940
Died23 July 2021(2021-07-23) (aged 81)
Kyoto, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Alma materNagoya University
Known forWork on CP violation
CKM matrix
AwardsSakurai Prize (1985)
Japan Academy Prize (1985)
Asahi Prize (1994)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsHigh energy physics (theory)
InstitutionsNagoya University
Kyoto University
Kyoto Sangyo University
Thesis粒子と共鳴準位の混合効果について. (1967)
Doctoral advisorShoichi Sakata
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