The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002
Awarded on: 2002-10-08
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
Affiliations:
- University of Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan
Masatoshi Koshiba
Born: 1926-09-19 in Toyohashi, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese physicist (1926–2020)
Biography
Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in detecting solar neutrinos, providing experimental evidence for the solar neutrino problem.