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Toshihide Maskawa was born on Feb. 7, 1940, in Nagoya, Japan, the second of three children, and only son, of Ichiro and Kaneko (Nojima) Maskawa. (His future research collaborator, Dr. Kobayashi ...

Maskawa Toshihide, Maskawa also spelled Masukawa, (born February 7, 1940, Nagoya, Japan—died July 23, 2021, Kyōto), Japanese physicist who was a corecipient, with Yoichiro Nambu and Kobayashi Makoto, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics. Maskawa and Kobayashi shared half the prize for their discovery of the origin of broken symmetry, which ...

Toshihide Maskawa. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008. Born: 7 February 1940, Nagoya, Japan. Died: 23 July 2021, Kyoto, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan; Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of the origin of the ...

Toshihide Maskawa died on 23 July 2021 from gingival cancer at age 81 in Kyoto, Japan. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics with Makoto Kobayashi “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature” and with Yoichiro Nambu, who discovered “the mechanism ...

The Japanese Nobel-prize-winning physicist Toshihide Maskawa died on 23 July at the age of 81. Maskawa shared half the 2008 Nobel prize with the Japanese physicist Makoto Kobayashi for their work on the mechanism of “broken symmetry” that led to the prediction of a new family of quarks.

Toshihide Maskawa, who has died aged 81, shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Makoto Kobayashi and Yoichiro Nambu, for “the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts ...

Toshihide Maskawa Biographical . I was born in 1940 as the second child in a family living in Nagoya, a city with a population of around a million inhabitants. My older sister died of tuberculosis before entering elementary school and so I was an only child until my second sister, who is seven years younger than me, was born after the War.

Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide, February 7, 1940 – July 23, 2021) was a Japanese theoretical physicist. He is known for his work on CP-violation. He won 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 ...