TOSHIHIDE MASKAWA

2008 Nobel Laureate 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

• Born: February 7, 1940
• Place of birth: Japan
• Nationality: Japan
• Residence: Japan
• Affiliation: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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    Kitashirakawa Oiwake-Cho
    606-8502 Kyoto, Japan
    
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• Education:
  • Nagoya University, Japan, PhD 1967

• Broken Symmetry: Selected Papers of Y. Nambu (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics, Vol 13) by Y. Nambu (Author), T. Eguchi (Editor), K. Nishijima (Editor)
• Books on Broken Symmetry
• Books on/by Toshihide Maskawa

• Prize co-recipient:Yoichiro Nambu
• Prize co-recipient:Makoto Kobayashi
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