“for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”
Toshihide Maskawa is a Japanese theoretical physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
- Field
- Physics · Particle Physics
- Lifespan
- 1940–2021