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Born April 7, 1944 (age 80) • Nagoya • Japan
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2008)
Subjects Of Study CP violation • Kobayashi-Maskawa model • antimatter • broken symmetry

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American physicist
David Gross
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James Watson Cronin
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H. David Politzer
American physicist
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Val Logsdon Fitch
American physicist
Nakamura, Shuji
Shuji Nakamura
American materials scientist
Kajita Takaaki
Kajita Takaaki
Japanese physicist
Akasaki Isamu
Akasaki Isamu
Japanese materials scientist
Koshiba Masatoshi
Japanese physicist
Yukawa Hideki at Columbia University, 1949.
Yukawa Hideki
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Tomonaga
Tomonaga Shin’ichirō
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Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
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Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
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Max Planck
Max Planck
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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
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