Toshihide Maskawa

was a Japanese theoretical physicist. He is known for his work on CP-violation. He won 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."

Maskawa died on July 23, 2021 in Kyoto, Japan from jaw cancer at the age of 81.ノーベル物理学賞受賞 益川敏英さん死去 81歳 

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