Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide, February 7, 1940 in Nagoya, Japan – July 23, 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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7 February 1940 Nagoya, Japan
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Died |
23 July 2021 (aged 81)
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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