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Toshihide Maskawa

Scientist · born February 7, 1940 · died 2021

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Toshihide Maskawa 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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  1. ~68Received the Nobel Prize in Physics2008
  2. ~68Received the Order of Culture2008

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