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Toshihide Maskawa

1940 - 2021

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Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide, 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) was a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter 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 Toshihide Maskawa has received more than 150,060 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Toshihide Maskawa is the 312th most popular physicist (down from 297th in 2019), the 323rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 329th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Toshihide Maskawa ranks 312 out of 717. Before him are Horst Ludwig Störmer, Stephen Hales, Jean-Charles de Borda, Gerard 't Hooft, John Robert Schrieffer, and Leon M. Lederman. After him are Steven Chu, John Stewart Bell, Marguerite Perey, Nathan Rosen, Otto Schmidt, and Daniel C. Tsui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Toshihide Maskawa ranks 105. Before him are Gojko Mitić, Alan Kay, Edward C. Prescott, Fabrizio De André, Sepp Piontek, and Shozo Tsugitani. After him are Elke Sommer, Saul Kripke, Jerzy Buzek, Mate Boban, Rudi Dutschke, and Jimmy Greaves. Among people deceased in 2021, Toshihide Maskawa ranks 110. Before him are Kjell Askildsen, David Yonggi Cho, Igor Oistrakh, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Christa Ludwig, and Kurt Westergaard. After him are Nino Castelnuovo, Stephen Sondheim, Djivan Gasparyan, Marion Ramsey, Kenneth Kaunda, and Franco Battiato.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toshihide Maskawa ranks 323 out of 6,048. Before him are Nobuyuki Kato (1920), Emperor Fushimi (1265), Yoshio Okada (1926), Ihara Saikaku (1642), Megumu Tamura (1927), and Nobutake Kondō (1886). After him are Hisataka Okamoto (1933), Kōki Hirota (1878), Kakuei Tanaka (1918), Minoru Genda (1904), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), and Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Toshihide Maskawa ranks 8. Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Leo Esaki (1925), and Makoto Kobayashi (1944). After him are Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), and Sumio Iijima (1939).

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