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Toshihide Maskawa

Toshihide Maskawa
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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. Brian David JosephsonJanuary 4, 1940 – present
  2. David KochMay 3, 1940 – August 23, 2019
  3. Elwyn Ralph BerlekampSeptember 6, 1940 – April 9, 2019
  4. John WarnockOctober 6, 1940 – August 19, 2023
  5. Thomas A. SteitzAugust 23, 1940 – October 9, 2018
  6. Toshihide Maskawa (this page)February 7, 1940 – July 23, 2021

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