MAKOTO KOBAYASHI

2008 Nobel Laureate 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

• Born: April 7, 1944
• Place of birth: Nagoya, Japan
• Nationality: Japan
• Residence: Japan
• Affiliation: High Energy Accelerator Research Organaization (KEK)
  • Address:
    1-1 Oho
    Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801 Japan
    
• Tel: 029-864-5379
• Fax: 029-879-6049
• E-mail: Makoto.Kobayashi.exp@kek.jp
• Education:
  • Nagoya University, Japan, PhD 1972

• Broken Symmetry: Selected Papers of Y. Nambu (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics, Vol 13) by Y. Nambu (Author), T. Eguchi (Editor), K. Nishijima (Editor)
• Books on Broken Symmetry

• Prize co-recipient:Yoichiro Nambu
• Prize co-recipient:Toshihide Maskawa
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