Physicist

Masatoshi Koshiba

Japanese physicist

1926 - 2020

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His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2024). Masatoshi Koshiba is the 274th most popular physicist (down from 255th in 2024), the 175th most popular biography from Japan (down from 168th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Physicist.

Masatoshi Koshiba is most famous for his discovery of the neutrino. He won the Nobel Prize in 2002 for this discovery.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 274 out of 851. Before him are Jack Steinberger, Yang Chen-Ning, David J. Wineland, Pierre Agostini, Gerard 't Hooft, and John C. Mather. After him are Claude-Louis Navier, Daniel Rutherford, John Robert Schrieffer, David Gross, Mihajlo Pupin, and William Daniel Phillips.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 61. Before him are George Habash, Tony Bennett, Vivian Maier, John G. Kemeny, Murray Rothbard, and Margot Frank. After him are Abdoulaye Wade, Peter Lax, Kim Jae-gyu, Ingrid Thulin, Jean-Pierre Serre, and Harry Dean Stanton. Among people deceased in 2020, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 48. Before him are Michael Lonsdale, Luis Sepúlveda, Jiří Menzel, Bill Gates Sr., Qasem Soleimani, and Jack Steinberger. After him are Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Nexhmije Hoxha, Oliver E. Williamson, Christopher Tolkien, George Steiner, and Zafarullah Khan Jamali.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 175 out of NaN. Before him are Kuniaki Koiso (1880), Shoko Asahara (1955), Emperor Suinin (-69), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Takashi Takabayashi (1931), and Teiichi Matsumaru (1909). After him are Emperor Kōtoku (596), Fujiko Fujio (1934), Fumimaro Konoe (1891), Hiroto Muraoka (1931), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), and Yasuo Suzuki (1913).

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Among Physicists In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 8. Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Leo Esaki (1925), and Toshihide Maskawa (1940). After him are Syukuro Manabe (1931), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Yoshio Nishina (1890), and Hantaro Nagaoka (1865).

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