Toshihide Maskawa

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Toshihide Maskawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-formulating the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) matrix, which explains CP violation in the Standard Model of particle physics.

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益川 敏英 1

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instanceOf Nobel laureate in Physics
human
theoretical physicist
academicDegree Doctor of Science
awardReceived Asahi Prize
JPS Nishina Memorial Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics
Order of Culture
Person of Cultural Merit (Japan)
surface form: Person of Cultural Merit
coAuthor Makoto Kobayashi
countryOfCitizenship Japan
dateOfBirth 1940-02-07
dateOfDeath 2021-07-23
educatedAt Nagoya University
employer Kyoto University
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
familyName Maskawa
fieldOfWork high-energy physics
particle physics
theoretical physics
givenName Toshihide
hasWork Kobayashi–Maskawa paper on CP violation (1973)
influenced Standard Model
surface form: Standard Model of particle physics
knownFor Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
surface form: CKM matrix

Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix
Kobayashi–Maskawa theory
theory of CP violation in the Standard Model
languageSpoken Japanese
memberOf Japan Academy
Physical Society of Japan
name Toshihide Maskawa self-link
nationality Japanese
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surface form: 益川 敏英
NobelPrizeCategory Physics
NobelPrizeMotivation for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature
NobelPrizeSharedWith Makoto Kobayashi
Yoichiro Nambu
NobelPrizeYear 2008
placeOfBirth Aichi Prefecture
Japan
Nagoya
placeOfDeath Japan
Kyoto
positionHeld director of Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
professor at Kyoto University
residence Kyoto
sexOrGender male

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Makoto Kobayashi coAuthor Toshihide Maskawa
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Japan Academy Prize hasRecipient Toshihide Maskawa
JPS Nishina Memorial Prize notableRecipient Toshihide Maskawa
Maskawa coDevelopedWith Toshihide Maskawa
subject surface form: Makoto Kobayashi
Maskawa sharesNobelPrizeWith Toshihide Maskawa
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Toshihide notableBearer Toshihide Maskawa