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Makoto Kobayashi

1944 - Today

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Makoto Kobayashi (小林 誠, Kobayashi Makoto; born April 7, 1944) is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth 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." Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Makoto Kobayashi is the 225th most popular physicist (up from 231st in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Japan (up from 143rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Physicist.

Makoto Kobayashi is most famous for being the first person to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 225 out of 851. Before him are Melvin Schwartz, Roy J. Glauber, Ralph Asher Alpher, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, and Andrew Huxley. After him are Ettore Majorana, Alexander Prokhorov, Frederick Reines, Klaus Fuchs, Edme Mariotte, and Robert Hofstadter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 52. Before him are O Yeong-su, Dietrich Mateschitz, Diana Ross, Helmut Berger, G. W. Bailey, and Ronnie Peterson. After him are Robert Kardashian, Nick Mason, George Graham, Erwin Neher, Jean-Pierre Léaud, and Claudia Mori.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 96 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Itoku (-553), Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Junko Tabei (1939), Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), and Date Masamune (1567). After him are Tokugawa Hidetada (1579), Kūkai (774), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Akira Suzuki (1930), Empress Meishō (1624), and Himiko (175).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 5. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), and Yoichiro Nambu (1921). After him are Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), and Takaaki Kajita (1959).

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