Makoto Kobayashi
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008.
Born: 7, Apr, 1944, Nagoya, 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: High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan
Prize share: 1/4