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Masatoshi Koshiba

1926 - 2020

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Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊, Koshiba Masatoshi, 19 September 1926 – 12 November 2020) was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masatoshi Koshiba has received more than 207,015 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Masatoshi Koshiba is the 254th most popular physicist (up from 275th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Japan (up from 224th in 2019) and the 6th 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 254 out of 851. Before him are Georg Bednorz, Georg von Békésy, Ivar Giaever, Claude-Louis Navier, Brian Josephson, and Charles Wheatstone. After him are Philip Warren Anderson, David Brewster, Otto Robert Frisch, Rainer Weiss, Syukuro Manabe, and Max Delbrück.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 60. Before him are Ingeborg Bachmann, George Martin, Henry Way Kendall, Tony Bennett, Maria Schell, and Shohei Imamura. After him are Vasily Arkhipov, Sergio Corbucci, Hilary Putnam, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Margot Frank, and Abdoulaye Wade. Among people deceased in 2020, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 47. Before him are Nexhmije Hoxha, Eduard Limonov, Kenzō Takada, Luis Sepúlveda, Geert Hofstede, and Mirella Freni. After him are Philip Warren Anderson, Kim Ki-duk, Buck Henry, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Joel Schumacher.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 168 out of 6,245. Before him are Nobusuke Kishi (1896), Emperor Ōjin (210), Antonio Inoki (1943), Shohei Imamura (1926), Emperor Kaika (-208), and Emperor Tenmu (631). After him are Junichiro Koizumi (1942), Emperor Suinin (-69), Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Yasuo Fukuda (1936), and Masaki Kobayashi (1916).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 6. Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Hideki Yukawa (1907), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), and Makoto Kobayashi (1944). After him are Syukuro Manabe (1931), Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Yoshio Nishina (1890), and Hiroshi Amano (1960).

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