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Takaaki Kajita. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015. Born: 9 March 1959, Higashimatsuyama, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”. Prize share: 1/2.

Takaaki Kajita Biographical . I was born on March 9, 1959, in Higashi-Matsuyama, a small city located about an hour’s train ride north of Tokyo. My house was located in the countryside, surrounded by rice fields on the north, east, and south. I grew up in such a peaceful environment. I went to Kawagoe High School, a rather typical small-town ...

Kajita Takaaki, (born 1959, Higashimatsuyama, Japan), Japanese physicist who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the oscillations of neutrinos from one flavour to another, which proved that those subatomic particles have mass.

Takaaki Kajita – who was still a physics student when Koshiba did his Nobel-prize-winning work – was intrigued by the study of these ghostly particles and decided to carry out a PhD at the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Koshiba.

KAJITA Takaaki. I have been studying elementary particle neutrinos in underground in Kamioka, Hida city, Gifu prefecture, by using detectors called Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande. In recent years, I have been involved in building a detector called KAGRA for gravitational-wave astronomy also in underground in Kamioka.

Principal investigator Takaaki Kajita, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at the University of Tokyo, says that KAGRA will join LIGO’s run for a month and then shut down again for another period of ...

Takaaki Kajita is the Special University Professor at the University of Tokyo, and also the Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of the University of Tokyo. Kajita received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo School of Science in 1986, and has been researching at Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande detectors at the Kamioka ...

Takaaki Kajita is the Special University Professor at The University of Tokyo, and also was the Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of The University of Tokyo between 2008 and 2022. He is currently the President of the Science Council of Japan. Kajita received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo, School of Science in 1986.