Masatoshi Koshiba
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
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Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and astronomer who lived from 1926 to 2020 and made important contributions to understanding the universe through his scientific work. His research in physics and astronomy helped advance human knowledge about how the cosmos works.
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- 1926
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- Butsuriya ni naritakattanda yo
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- The Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2009 · cited 10,158x
- ESTIMATION OF AVERAGE HETEROZYGOSITY AND GENETIC DISTANCE FROM A SMALL NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS
· 1978 · cited 7,808x
- Molecular Evolutionary Genetics
· 1987 · cited 7,718x
- Metal-insulator transitions
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Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊, Koshiba Masatoshi; 19 September 1926 – 12 November 2020) was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in detecting solar neutrinos, providing experimental evidence for the solar neutrino problem.
Koshiba won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, jointly with Raymond Davis Jr., "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos". Koshiba was the first Japanese Nobel laureate to hold two doctoral degrees. In addition, he was the second Japanese recipient of both the Nobel Prize and the Wolf Prize. His mentor, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, and his student, Takaaki Kajita, were also Nobel Prize winners in Physics.
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1926 births2020 deaths20th-century Japanese physicistsAcademic staff of the University of TokyoAcademic staff of Tokai UniversityBenjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureatesCommanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyCosmic ray physicistsFellows of Bangladesh Academy of SciencesFellows of the American Physical SocietyForeign associates of the National Academy of Sciences