Makoto Kobayashi

Makoto Kobayashi, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1944-04-07 in Nagoya, Japan

Gender: male

Field: Japanese physicist (born 1944)

Biography

Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth 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."

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

Awarded on: 2008-10-07

"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"

Affiliations:

  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) – Tsukuba, Japan
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