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Takaaki Kajita | |
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梶田 隆章 | |
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Born | Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan | 9 March 1959
Education | Saitama Prefectural Kawagoe High School |
Alma mater | Saitama University (B.S.) University of Tokyo (M.S., Ph.D.) |
Spouse | Michiko |
Awards | Asahi Prize (1988) Bruno Rossi Prize (1989) Nishina Memorial Prize (1999) Panofsky Prize (2002) Japan Academy Prize (2012) Nobel Prize in Physics (2015) Fundamental Physics Prize (2016) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo |
Doctoral advisor | Masatoshi Koshiba |
Other academic advisors | Yoji Totsuka |
Takaaki Kajita (梶田 隆章, Kajita Takaaki, Japanese pronunciation: [kadʑita takaːki]; born 9 March 1959) is a Japanese physicist. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald.[1]
On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Professor Kajita won the novel prize in physics !!" (Press release). KAGRA collaboration. 7 October 2015.
Professor Kajita, who is the PI of KAGRA, won the Nobel prize in physics !!