Toshihide Maskawa


	Dr. Toshihide Maskawa was born 1940 in Nagoya, Japan. He graduated from Nagoya University in 1962 and received a Ph.D. in Physics from the same university in 1967 supervised by Professor Shoichi Sakata. He spent three years at Nagoya University as an assistant professor, then moved to Kyoto University where he had a fateful encounter with Makoto Kobayashi, a corecipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008. Since then, he has also showed enthusiasm for social activities and nowadays is also famous as an anti-war activist. In 1997, he became a professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University and held a directorship at the institute. After 2003, he moved to Kyoto Sangyo University as a full professor and established the Maskawa Institute for Science and Culture. He has been a university professor at Nagoya University since 2009, as well as a director at the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University. Since 2010, he has been a member of the Japan Academy. He won the Nishina Memorial Award in 1979, followed by the J.J. Sakurai prize and the Japan Academy Prize in 1985. In 2008, he was awarded the 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".

Dr. Toshihide Maskawa was born 1940 in Nagoya, Japan. He graduated from Nagoya University in 1962 and received a Ph.D. in Physics from the same university in 1967 supervised by Professor Shoichi Sakata. He spent three years at Nagoya University as an assistant professor, then moved to Kyoto University where he had a fateful encounter with Makoto Kobayashi, a corecipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008. Since then, he has also showed enthusiasm for social activities and nowadays is also famous as an anti-war activist. In 1997, he became a professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University and held a directorship at the institute. After 2003, he moved to Kyoto Sangyo University as a full professor and established the Maskawa Institute for Science and Culture. He has been a university professor at Nagoya University since 2009, as well as a director at the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University. Since 2010, he has been a member of the Japan Academy. He won the Nishina Memorial Award in 1979, followed by the J.J. Sakurai prize and the Japan Academy Prize in 1985. In 2008, he was awarded the 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".