Nobel laureate: Toshihide Maskawa
Born: 1940-02-07, Nagoya, Japan
Died: 2021-07-23, Kyoto, Japan
Gender: male
Prizes:
year: 2008
category: physics
share: 4
motivation: "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
affiliations: name: Kyoto Sangyo University
city: Kyoto
country: Japan
name: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University
city: Kyoto
country: Japan