Physics: Toshihide Maskawa

Physics: Toshihide Maskawa
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Toshihide Maskawa (1940) Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide; 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) 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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Toshihide Maskawa (1940) Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa To shihide; 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) 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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Why is Toshihide Maskawa remembered? E very major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. Toshihide Maskawa was one of those people.

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About Toshihide Maskawa Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Tos hihide; 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) 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."