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Toshihide Maskawa
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Person

Toshihide Maskawa

1940 – 2021 · aged 81

Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)

Born
7 Feb 1940 · Nagoya
Died
23 Jul 2021 · Kyoto
Part ofJapan230 BCE – todayEmpire of Japan1864 – 1947

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 93 years
  1. 7 Feb 1940BornBorn in Nagoya
  2. 1979AwardNishina Memorial Prize
  3. 1985AwardSakurai Prize
  4. 1994AwardAsahi Prize
  5. 2001AwardPerson of Cultural Merit
  6. 2007AwardHigh Energy and Particle Physics Prize
  7. 2008AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  8. 2008AwardOrder of Culture
  9. 2011AwardHonorary doctor of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  10. 23 Jul 2021DiedDied in Kyoto

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1940 – 2021).

  1. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  2. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  3. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  4. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  5. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  6. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  7. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  8. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  10. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  11. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  13. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  14. 1956Suez Crisis
  15. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  17. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  19. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  21. 1968Prague Spring
  22. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  23. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  24. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  25. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  27. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  28. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  29. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  30. 1985Schengen Agreement
  31. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  32. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  33. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  35. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  37. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  39. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  40. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

Biography

Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide; 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) was a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter 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."

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