Today (April 7, 1944) is the birthday of the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese physicist Makoto Kobayashi.
Makoto Kobayashi was
born on April 7, 1944 in Nagoya, Japan. When he was two years old, his father,
Hisashi, died. The Kobayashi family home was destroyed by a bomb blast in
Nagoya. So they stayed at his mother's family home. He received his D.Sc.
degree in 1967 from the School of Science, University of Nagoya. He received
his doctorate in science in 1972 under the guidance of Shoghi Sakata and others
from the University of Nagoya. After completing his doctoral dissertation,
Kobayashi worked as a research partner on particle physics at Kyoto University.
Together with his colleague Toshihide Muscovite, he was involved in explaining
the CB violation in the standard model of particle physics. Kobayashi and
Muscovite's theory is that there must be at least three generations of quarks.
This was confirmed experimentally by the discovery of a lower quark four years
later.
Kobayashi and
Muscovite's 1973 article, "CB Violation in the Reversible Theory of Weak
Communications", is the fourth highest high-energy physics paper of all
time as of 2010. The result of this work is the Kabipo-Kobayashi-Muscova matrix
that defines the composition parameters between quarks. Kobayashi and Muskowa
were jointly awarded half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. The
other half went to Yoichiro Nambu.
In recognition of
the contributions of three Nobel laureates, bronze statues of Shinichira
Domonaka, Leo Isaki and Makoto Kobayashi were erected in 2015 at Asuma Central
Park in Tsukuba. He has received the Nishina Memorial Prize, the Sakurai Prize,
the Asahi Prize, the European Physics Association's High Energy and Particle
Physics Prize, and the Prize for Cultural Order at the Imperial Palace in
Tokyo.
Source By: Wikipedia
Information: Ramesh,
Assistant Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti.
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