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Masatoshi Koshiba

1926 - 2020

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Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊, Koshiba Masatoshi; 19 September 1926 – 12 November 2020) was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in detecting solar neutrinos, providing experimental evidence for the solar neutrino problem. Koshiba won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, jointly with Raymond Davis Jr., "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos". Koshiba was the first Japanese Nobel laureate to hold two doctoral degrees. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Masatoshi Koshiba is the 274th most popular physicist (down from 255th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 168th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Physicist.

Masatoshi Koshiba is most famous for his discovery of the neutrino. He won the Nobel Prize in 2002 for this discovery.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 274 out of 851. Before him are Jack Steinberger, Yang Chen-Ning, David J. Wineland, Pierre Agostini, Gerard 't Hooft, and John C. Mather. After him are Claude-Louis Navier, Daniel Rutherford, John Robert Schrieffer, David Gross, Mihajlo Pupin, and William Daniel Phillips.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 61. Before him are George Habash, Tony Bennett, Vivian Maier, John G. Kemeny, Murray Rothbard, and Margot Frank. After him are Abdoulaye Wade, Peter Lax, Kim Jae-gyu, Ingrid Thulin, Jean-Pierre Serre, and Harry Dean Stanton. Among people deceased in 2020, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 48. Before him are Michael Lonsdale, Luis Sepúlveda, Jiří Menzel, Bill Gates Sr., Qasem Soleimani, and Jack Steinberger. After him are Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Nexhmije Hoxha, Oliver E. Williamson, Christopher Tolkien, George Steiner, and Zafarullah Khan Jamali.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 173 out of 6,245. Before him are Kuniaki Koiso (1880), Shoko Asahara (1955), Emperor Suinin (-69), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Takashi Takabayashi (1931), and Teiichi Matsumaru (1909). After him are Emperor Kōtoku (596), Fujiko Fujio (1934), Fumimaro Konoe (1891), Hiroto Muraoka (1931), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), and Yasuo Suzuki (1913).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 8. Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Leo Esaki (1925), and Toshihide Maskawa (1940). After him are Syukuro Manabe (1931), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Yoshio Nishina (1890), and Hantaro Nagaoka (1865).

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