The Daily Telegraph: Toshihide Maskawa, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for solving a mystery of the Big Bang and the creation of the universe – obituary
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Toshihide Maskawa
Toshihide Maskawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of 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."
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science · Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021) · theoretical physicist · professor · physicist · also Toshihide Maskawa, Toshihide Masukawa, Masukawa Toshihide, Maskawa
Born 7 February 1940 · Died 23 July 2021 · Q202168
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2021· 4 entries
The New York Times: Toshihide Maskawa, 81, Dies; Nobelist Helped Unlock a Cosmic Mystery
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Physics World: Japanese Nobel-prize-winning particle physicist Toshihide Maskawa dies aged 81
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Died 2021-07-23.
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2013· 1 entry
Maskawa and chemistry Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa issued a statement against the Japanese State Secrecy Law
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2011).
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2008· 4 entries
Awarded the 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.
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Awarded Order of Culture (2008).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2008).
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“Sorry, I cannot speak English”
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2007).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (2001).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Asahi Prize (1994).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Sakurai Prize (1985).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Nishina Memorial Prize (1979).
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1973· 1 entry
Published “<i>C</i><i>P</i>-Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction” in Progress of Theoretical Physics — cited 5,626 times.
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-02-07.
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