Takaaki Kajita
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Takaaki Kajita (梶田 隆章, Kajita Takaaki, Japanese pronunciation: [kadʑita takaːki]; born 9 March 1959) is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald. On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.
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梶田 隆章 | |
Born | (1959-03-09) 9 March 1959 (age 65) Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan |
Education | Saitama Prefectural Kawagoe High School |
Alma mater | Saitama University (BS) University of Tokyo (MS, PhD) |
Spouse | Michiko |
Awards | Asahi Prize (1988) Bruno Rossi Prize (1989) Nishina Memorial Prize (1999) Panofsky Prize (2002) Japan Academy Prize (2012) Nobel Prize in Physics (2015) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016) |
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Institutions | Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo |
Doctoral advisor | Masatoshi Koshiba |
Other academic advisors | Yoji Totsuka |
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