Thursday, February 6, 2014

Makoto Kobayashi

b. April 7, 1944

Kobayashi received his doctorate degree in physics from Nagoya University.

He predicted the existence of three families of quarks, the components of protons and neutrons, with his discovery of the origin of broken symmetry.

Makoto Kobayashi won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2008.

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