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Makoto Kobayashi

1944 - Today

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Makoto Kobayashi (小林 誠, Kobayashi Makoto, born April 7, 1944, in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth 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.. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Makoto Kobayashi has received more than 18,980 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Makoto Kobayashi is the 292nd most popular physicist (down from 266th in 2019), the 267th most popular biography from Japan (down from 224th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Physicist.

Makoto Kobayashi is most famous for being the first person to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 292 out of 717. Before him are Ludwig Prandtl, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Samuel C. C. Ting, Carlo Rubbia, David Gross, and Ernst Chladni. After him are Fritjof Capra, Walter Kohn, William Daniel Phillips, Yuri Oganessian, Freeman Dyson, and Valentin Ceaușescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 97. Before him are Karl Jenkins, Coluche, Ian McDiarmid, Keith Emerson, Gianni Morandi, and Karin Schubert. After him are Ren Zhengfei, Roger Scruton, Peter Tosh, Michelle Phillips, Erwin Neher, and W. G. Sebald.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 267 out of 6,048. Before him are Empress Teimei (1884), Setsuko Hara (1920), Iwasaki Yatarō (1835), Terauchi Masatake (1852), Hōjō Masako (1156), and Emperor Ankan (466). After him are Hideo Kojima (1963), Yosa Buson (1716), Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684), Emperor Bidatsu (538), Kido Takayoshi (1833), and Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 8. Before him are Syukuro Manabe (1931), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), and Leo Esaki (1925). After him are Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hiroshi Amano (1960), and Takaaki Kajita (1959).

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