Toshihide Maskawa:
Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide?, born February 7, 1940) is a Japanese theoretical physicist well-known for his work on CP-violation. His article "CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction" written with Makoto Kobayashi is the third most cited high energy physics paper of all time as of 2006.[1] The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix, which defines the mixing parameters between quarks, was the result of this work on journal Progress of Theoretical Physics in 1973. He shares the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics with Makoto Kobayashi and Yoichiro Nambu on Spontaneous symmetry breaking.[2][3][4]
[edit] Academic career
A native of Aichi Prefecture, Maskawa graduated from Nagoya University in 1962 and received a Ph.D from the same school in 1967. He is now professor emeritus of Kyoto University and professor of Kyoto Sangyo University.
[edit] Honors
In October 2008, Maskawa was honored with Japan's Order of Culture; and an awards ceremony for the Order of Culture will be held at the Imperial Palace.[5]
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