# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/makoto-kobayashi
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:13:09.228Z

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name: "Makoto Kobayashi"
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description: "Makoto Kobayashi  is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth 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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birthDate: "1944-04-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump