“I want to thank the neutrinos, of course. And since neutrinos are created by cosmic rays, I want to thank them, too.”
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Takaaki Kajita
Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations. On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.
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science · Japanese physicist · physicist · university teacher · also Takaaki Kajita, T. Kajita, Kajita Takaaki, Kajita
Born 9 March 1959 · Q11538917
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2023· 1 entry
Published “GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the Second Part of the Third Observing Run” in Physical Review X — cited 1,434 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016).
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2015· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for neutrino oscillation (2015).
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Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (2015).
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Awarded Order of Culture (2015).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B
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Kajita shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Canadian physicist Arthur McDonald, whose Sudbury Neutrino Observatory discovered similar results
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Julius Wess Prize (2013).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Panofsky Prize (2002).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Asahi Prize (1999).
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1998· 3 entries
Published “Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos” in Physical Review Letters — cited 4,053 times.
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Kajita's team at the Super-Kamiokande found that when cosmic rays hit the Earth's atmosphere, the resulting neutrinos switched between two flavours before they reached the detector under Mt
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– Asahi Prize as part of Super-Kamiokande (Representative – Yoji Totsuka)
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Bruno Rossi Prize (1989).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Nishina Memorial Prize (1988).
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Asahi Prize (1987).
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Published “Observation of a neutrino burst from the supernova SN1987A” in Physical Review Letters — cited 1,697 times.
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-03-09.
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