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Born January 18, 1921 • Tokyo • Japan
Died July 5, 2015 (aged 94) • Ōsaka • Japan
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2008) • National Medal of Science (1982)
Subjects Of Study antimatter • broken symmetry • gluon • string theory

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