Toshihide Maskawa Scientist

Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川敏英, Masukawa Toshihide, born February 7, 1940 in Nagoya, Japan) is 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."

Personal facts

Birth date	February 07, 1940
Birth place	Japan , Nagoya
Nationality	Japan
Residence	Japan
Education	Nagoya University
Known for	CP violation Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix