Toshihide Maskawa | |
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| 益川 敏英 | |
 Maskawa in 2008 | |
| Born | 7 February 1940 |
| Died | 23 July 2021 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Nagoya University |
| Known for | Work on CP violation CKM matrix |
| Spouse | Akiko Takahashi |
| Children | 2 |
| 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 |
| Thesis | 粒子と共鳴準位の混合効果について. (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Shoichi Sakata |
| Standard Model of particle physics |
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Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide, 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) 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."[1]
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 17 October 2009.