Toshihide Maskawa

Japanese theoretical physicist (1940-2021) · Japan · Scientists · Died at 81

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Toshihide Maskawa 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."

A life in dates

2021Died23 July 20212011Honorary Doctor of the Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityAward2008Nobel Prize in PhysicsAwardOrder of CultureAward2007High Energy and Particle Physics PrizeAward2001Person of Cultural MeritAward1994Asahi PrizeAward1985Sakurai PrizeAward1979Nishina Memorial PrizeAward1940Born7 February 1940

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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

Maskawa's slide rule on display at the Nobel Prize Museum

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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Japan

In common with Toshihide

Makoto KobayashiBoth received High Energy and Particle Physics Prize

Gerard 't HooftBoth received High Energy and Particle Physics Prize

François EnglertBoth received Sakurai Prize

Sumio IijimaBoth received Nishina Memorial Prize

Frank WilczekBoth received High Energy and Particle Physics Prize

Takaaki KajitaBoth received Nishina Memorial Prize

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