Toshihide Maskawa
益川 敏英 Toshihide Maskawa | |
|---|---|
 Maskawa in 2008 | |
| Born | February 7, 1940 |
| Died | July 23, 2021 (aged 81) Kyoto, Japan |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Alma mater | Nagoya University |
| Known for | Work on CP violation CKM matrix |
| Awards | Sakurai Prize (1985) Japan Academy Prize (1985) Asahi Prize (1994) Nobel Prize in Physics (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | High energy physics (theory) |
| Institutions | Nagoya University Kyoto University Kyoto Sangyo University |
| Doctoral advisor | Shoichi Sakata |
Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide; February 7, 1940 – July 23, 2021) was a Japanese theoretical physicist. He is known for his work on CP-violation. He won 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."
Maskawa died on July 23, 2021 in Kyoto, Japan from jaw cancer at the age of 81.
References
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ↑ ノーベル物理学賞受賞 益川敏英さん死去 81歳 Archived 2021-07-29 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
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