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Makoto Kobayashi
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Makoto Kobayashi (小林 誠, Kobayashi Makoto, born April 7, 1944, in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth 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."[1]
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小林 誠 Makoto Kobayashi | |
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![]() Kobayashi in 2008 | |
Born | (1944-04-07) April 7, 1944 (age 80) |
Citizenship | Japan |
Alma mater | Nagoya University |
Known for | Work on CP violation CKM matrix |
Awards | Sakurai Prize (1985) Japan Academy Prize (1985) Asahi Prize (1995) High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (2007) Nobel Prize in Physics (2008) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | High energy physics (theory) |
Institutions | Kyoto University High Energy Accelerator Research Organization |
Doctoral advisor | Shoichi Sakata |
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