Toshihide Maskawa

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Nobel laureate in Physics human theoretical physicist

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

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
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 →
coAuthor	Makoto Kobayashi →
countryOfCitizenship	Japan →
dateOfBirth	1940-02-07 →
dateOfDeath	2021-07-23 →
educatedAt	Nagoya University NERFINISHED →
employer	Kyoto University NERFINISHED → 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 of particle physics →
knownFor	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 →
nationality	Japanese →
nativeName	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 NERFINISHED → 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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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Nagoya University →	hasNobelLaureate
University of Tokyo →	hasNotableFaculty
Toshihide Maskawa →	name
Toshihide Maskawa ("益川敏英") →	nativeName