PHYSICIST

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 22,690 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Makoto Kobayashi is the 230th most popular physicist (up from 292nd in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 265th in 2019) and the 5th 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 230 out of 851. Before him are Sheldon Lee Glashow, Roy J. Glauber, Frederick Reines, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Edme Mariotte. After him are Burton Richter, Joseph Plateau, Serge Haroche, Horst Ludwig Störmer, William Shockley, and Rolf Maximilian Sievert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 65. Before him are Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Peter Weir, John Holmes, Askar Akayev, Bora Milutinović, and Leila Khaled. After him are Udo Kier, Serge Haroche, Abdul Hamid, Klaus Nomi, Claudia Mori, and Bernhard Schlink.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 143 out of 6,245. Before him are Tokugawa Hidetada (1579), Kakuichi Mimura (1931), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Tameo Ide (1908), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), and Kuniaki Koiso (1880). After him are Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Emperor Sujin (-147), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Emperor Kanmu (737), and Emperor Kōrei (-341).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Makoto Kobayashi ranks 5. Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Hideki Yukawa (1907), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), and Yoichiro Nambu (1921). After him are Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Yoshio Nishina (1890), and Hiroshi Amano (1960).

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