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Toshihide Maskawa

1940 - 2021

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Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide; 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) 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." Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Toshihide Maskawa is the 262nd most popular physicist (up from 279th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Japan (up from 211th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Toshihide Maskawa ranks 262 out of 851. Before him are Igor Kurchatov, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Abdus Salam, Chien-Shiung Wu, Serge Haroche, and Julian Schwinger. After him are Carlo Rubbia, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Osborne Reynolds, Anthony James Leggett, Johannes Rydberg, and Jack Steinberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Toshihide Maskawa ranks 70. Before him are Eduardo Galeano, Astrud Gilberto, René Auberjonois, Mario Andretti, H. R. Giger, and Fatema Mernissi. After him are Dennis Tito, George A. Romero, James Cromwell, Tarō Asō, Herbie Hancock, and Cliff Richard. Among people deceased in 2021, Toshihide Maskawa ranks 46. Before him are Colin Bell, Jorge Sampaio, Antony Hewish, Robert H. Grubbs, Hissène Habré, and Robert Mundell. After him are Carlos Reutemann, Sonny Chiba, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Colin Powell, Richard Rogers, and Chick Corea.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toshihide Maskawa ranks 141 out of 6,245. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Jiro Miyake (1900), Usaburo Hidaka (null), and Masaru Emoto (1943). After him are Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604), Shigeru Yoshida (1878), Hiroaki Sato (1932), Kobayashi Issa (1763), Sonny Chiba (1939), and Emperor Kōrei (-341).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Toshihide Maskawa ranks 7. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), and Leo Esaki (1925). After him are Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), and Yoshio Nishina (1890).

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