Makoto Kobayashi (born 1944)

Born 1944 CE.

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."

Text from the Wikipedia article Makoto_Kobayashi, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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