Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)
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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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- Born
- 1940
- Died
- 2021
- Works
- 4
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- Strong Coupling Gauge Theories in the Lhc Perspective
- Strong Coupling Gauge Theories in the Lhc Perspective (Scgt 12) - Proceedings of the Kmi-Gcoe Workshop
- Quest for the Origin of Particles and the Universe
- Scientific Works of Shoichi Sakata and Commentaries
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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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1940 births2021 deaths21st-century Japanese physicistsAcademic staff of Nagoya UniversityAcademic staff of the University of TokyoJapanese Nobel laureatesJapanese theoretical physicistsJ. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipientsNagoya University alumniNobel laureates in PhysicsParticle physicistsRecipients of the Nishina Memorial Prize