Makoto Kobayashi

Makoto Kobayashi

Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)

“for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”

Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese physicist. He was awarded the 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. He was affiliated with the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan.

Field
Physics · Particle Physics
Lifespan
1944–