Physics: Makoto Kobayashi

Physics: Makoto Kobayashi
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Makoto Kobayashi (1944) Makoto Kobayashi (小林 誠, Kobayashi Makoto; born April 7, 1944) is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth 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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Makoto Kobayashi (1944) Makoto Kobayashi (小林 誠, Kobayashi Makoto; b orn April 7, 1944) is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth 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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Why is Makoto Kobayashi remembered? Ev ery major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. Makoto Kobayashi was one of those people.

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About Makoto Kobayashi Makoto Kobayashi (小林 誠, Kobayashi Makoto; bo rn April 7, 1944) is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth 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."