Makoto Kobayashi

Japanese theoretical physicist (1944-) · Japan · Scientists

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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."

A life in dates

2011Honorary Doctor of the Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityAward2008Nobel Prize in PhysicsAwardOrder of CultureAward2007High Energy and Particle Physics PrizeAward2001Person of Cultural MeritAward1994Asahi PrizeAward1985Sakurai PrizeAward1979Nishina Memorial PrizeAward1944Born7 April 1944

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Paul Krugman, Roger Tsien, Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Masukawa, Nobel Prize Laureates 2008, at a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm

Awards

Honorary Doctor of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University2011

Order of Culture2008

Nobel Prize in Physics2008

High Energy and Particle Physics Prize2007

Person of Cultural Merit2001

Asahi Prize1994

Sakurai Prize1985

Nishina Memorial Prize1979

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Masatoshi KoshibaBoth received Nishina Memorial Prize

Frank WilczekBoth received Sakurai Prize

Georges CharpakBoth received High Energy and Particle Physics Prize

Toshihide MaskawaBoth received Sakurai Prize

François EnglertBoth received Sakurai Prize

Takaaki KajitaBoth received Nishina Memorial Prize

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