The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
Awarded on: 2015-10-06
"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"
Affiliations:
- University of Tokyo – Kashiwa, Japan
Takaaki Kajita
Born: 1959-03-09 in Higashimatsuyama, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese physicist
Biography
Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald. On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.