Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)
Toshihide Maskawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to understanding why matter and antimatter behave differently, work that helped explain the fundamental forces of nature. His discoveries earned him a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics and remain central to our modern understanding of particle physics.
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Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide; 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) 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."
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