Toshihide Maskawa

Toshihide Maskawa, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1940-02-07 in Nagoya, Japan

Gender: male

Field: Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)

Biography

Toshihide Maskawa 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."

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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:

  • Kyoto Sangyo University – Kyoto, Japan
  • Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University – Kyoto, Japan
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