Makoto Kobayashi (physicist):
Makoto Kobayashi (小林 誠, Kobayashi Makoto?, born April 7, 1944) is a Japanese physicist well-known for his work on CP-violation. His article "CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction"[3] (1973) written with Toshihide Maskawa is the third most cited high energy physics paper of all time as of 2007[4]. The CKM Matrix, which defines the mixing parameters between quarks was the result of this work on jurnal Progress of Theoretical Physics. He, along with Toshihide Maskawa were jointly awarded half 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."[5][6][7]
The CKM Ansatz postulates the existence of a third generation of quarks, which was experimentally confirmed four years later by the discovery of the bottom quark.
[edit] Academic Career
- April, 1972 : Research Associate of Kyoto University
- July,1979 : Assistant Professor of the National Laboratory of High Energy Physics
- April, 1989 : Professor of the National Laboratory of High Energy Physics, Head of Physics Division II
- April, 1997 : Professor of the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Science, KEK Head of Physics Division II
- April, 2003 : Director, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK
- April, 2004 : Trustee (Director, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies), KEK (Inter-University Research Institute Corporation)
- June, 2006 : Professor emeritus of KEK.
[edit] Honors
- In October 2008, Kobayashi was honored with Japan's Order of Culture; and an awards ceremony for the Order of Culture will be held at the Imperial Palace.[8]
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