Toshihide Maskawa was awarded Nobel Prize 2008 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."
Nationality Japan
Institution Kyoto Sangyo University; Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP)
Award 2008
Discipline Physics
Co-recipients Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi
MotivationAwarded with Nobel Prize 2008 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."
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