Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)
Japanese theoretical physicist (1944-)
Makoto Kobayashi (小林 誠, Kobayashi Makoto, born April 7, 1944) is a Japanese physicist. He is known for his work on CP-violation. He won 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]
小林 誠 Makoto Kobayashi | |
|---|---|
 Kobayashi in 2008 | |
| Born | April 7, 1944 |
| 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 |
References
change- ↑ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008, The Nobel Foundation, retrieved 2009-10-17
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