Takaaki Kajita

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Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on neutrino oscillations, which demonstrated that neutrinos have mass.

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instanceOf Japanese physicist
Nobel laureate
human
physicist
affiliation Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo NERFINISHED
Super-Kamiokande Collaboration NERFINISHED
awardReceived 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics NERFINISHED
Asahi Prize NERFINISHED
Japan Academy Prize NERFINISHED
Nobel Prize in Physics
Yoji Totsuka Prize NERFINISHED
birthDate 1959-03-09
birthPlace Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Japan
degree PhD in physics
doctoralAdvisor Masatoshi Koshiba NERFINISHED
educatedAt Saitama University NERFINISHED
University of Tokyo NERFINISHED
employer Institute for Cosmic Ray Research NERFINISHED
University of Tokyo NERFINISHED
era 20th-century physics
21st-century physics
fieldOfWork astroparticle physics
neutrino physics
particle physics
gender male
knownFor Super-Kamiokande experiment NERFINISHED
demonstrating that neutrinos have mass
neutrino oscillations
languageSpoken Japanese
memberOf Physical Society of Japan NERFINISHED
Science Council of Japan NERFINISHED
name Takaaki Kajita NERFINISHED
nativeName 梶田 隆章 NERFINISHED
nobelPrizeMotivation for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass
notableContribution establishing that the Standard Model must be extended to include neutrino mass
evidence for neutrino flavor change
notableExperiment Super-Kamiokande NERFINISHED
positionHeld director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
professor at the University of Tokyo
researchFocus atmospheric neutrinos
neutrino oscillation parameters
residence Japan
sharesNobelPrizeWith Arthur B. McDonald NERFINISHED
workLocation Kamioka Observatory NERFINISHED

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