Toshihide Maskawa

Toshihide Maskawa
益川 敏英
Maskawa in 2008
Born(1940-02-07)7 February 1940
Died23 July 2021(2021-07-23) (aged 81)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materNagoya University
Known forWork on CP violation
CKM matrix
SpouseAkiko Takahashi
Children2
AwardsSakurai Prize (1985)
Japan Academy Prize (1985)
Asahi Prize (1994)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsHigh energy physics (theory)
InstitutionsNagoya 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 advisorShoichi Sakata

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]

  1. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 17 October 2009.