Toshihide Maskawa
Toshihide Masukawa (Japanese益 川 敏 英, Masukawa Toshihide; sometimes romanized Maskawa, born February 7, 1940 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese physicist who is known for his work on the CP violation. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2008.
Life and work
1962 acquired Masukawa his degree from Nagoya University, 1967 PhD. Then he was there assistant, from 1970 at the University of Kyoto. In 1976, he moved for an assistant professorship at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the University of Tokyo. From 1980 he was professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University, which he headed from 1997 to 1999. Since 2003 Masukawa teaches at the Sangyo University Kyoto.
His article CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction, which he wrote together with Makoto Kobayashi, was, according to SPIRES 2006, the third most cited articles in the field of high energy physics. The CKM matrix (sometimes also called only by Kobayashi and Masukawa ), which in the Standard Model of particle physics describes the mixing of mass eigenstates and eigenstates of the weak interaction was the result of this work in 1973. She said three quark generation ahead and had the CP- injury as a consequence, which thus could be classified into the standard model. In 1995, the sixth quark was discovered by CDF of the Fermilab and 2001 confirmed the KEK and SLAC CP violation in the decay of B mesons with the experiments Belle ( KEKB ) and BaBar (PEP -II).
Masukawa is married to Akiko Masukawa and has two sons.