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Takaaki Kajita

1959 - Today

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Takaaki Kajita (梶田 隆章, Kajita Takaaki; Japanese pronunciation: [kadʑita takaːki]; born 9 March 1959) is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald. On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Takaaki Kajita is the 400th most popular physicist (down from 397th in 2019), the 651st most popular biography from Japan (down from 613th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Takaaki Kajita ranks 400 out of 851. Before him are Walter A. Shewhart, Stefan Hell, Jean-Antoine Nollet, John Kerr, Arpad Elo, and George Uhlenbeck. After him are Tom Kibble, Paul Drude, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Samuel Goudsmit, Yoshio Nishina, and Otto Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Takaaki Kajita ranks 91. Before him are Hassan Diab, Benny Gantz, Yasmina Reza, Chan Santokhi, Elizabeth Peña, and Loretta Lynch. After him are Nimr al-Nimr, Rupert Everett, Laura Chinchilla, Marwan Barghouti, Clancy Brown, and Guy Parmelin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takaaki Kajita ranks 651 out of 6,245. Before him are Ankō Itosu (1831), Tokugawa Ietsugu (1709), Motoo Kimura (1924), Teruo Nimura (1943), Mitsuko Uchida (1948), and Enomoto Takeaki (1836). After him are Machiko Kyō (1924), Hisao Sekiguchi (1954), Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), Emperor Horikawa (1079), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), and Kiyosi Itô (1915).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Takaaki Kajita ranks 12. Before him are Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Shuji Nakamura (1954), and Hiroshi Amano (1960). After him are Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), Sumio Iijima (1939), Shoichi Sakata (1911), and Yoshiaki Arata (1924).

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