Toshihide Maskawa
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008.
Born: 7, Feb, 1940, Nagoya, Japan
Died: 23, Jul, 2021, Kyoto, Japan
Prize motivation: "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan
Prize share: 1/4