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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 199,078 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Masatoshi Koshiba is the 275th most popular physicist (up from 279th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from Japan (up from 249th 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 275 out of 717. Before him are Patrick Blackett, Douglas Osheroff, Andre Geim, Brian Josephson, John Tyndall, and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. After him are Leo Esaki, Zhores Alferov, Otto Robert Frisch, Jan Ingenhousz, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Antoine César Becquerel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 74. Before him are César Pelli, Shohei Imamura, Kim Jae-gyu, Gyula Grosics, Henry Way Kendall, and Jean-Pierre Serre. After him are Alan Greenspan, Andrew Schally, John Berger, Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Gus Grissom, and Jorge Medina. Among people deceased in 2020, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 66. Before him are Kenny Rogers, Ken Hensley, Terry Jones, Conchata Ferrell, Buck Henry, and George Blake. After him are Pranab Mukherjee, Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, Carl Reiner, Eddie Van Halen, Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, and Moussa Traoré.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 225 out of 6,048. Before him are Antonio Inoki (1943), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Emperor Senka (467), and Emperor Hanzei (336). After him are Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830), Leo Esaki (1925), Emperor Seinei (444), Shunichi Kumai (1910), Shunroku Hata (1879), and Nogi Maresuke (1849).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Masatoshi Koshiba ranks 6. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), and Yoichiro Nambu (1921). After him are Leo Esaki (1925), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), and Yoshio Nishina (1890).

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