# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/takaaki-kajita
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:13:30.171Z

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name: "Takaaki Kajita"
slug: "takaaki-kajita"
description: "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 for the discovery of neutrino oscillations. On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan."
tagline: "Japanese physicist and astronomer"
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birthDate: "1959-03-09"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump