Science · 1940–2021
Toshihide Maskawa — Age & Birthday
Born: 7 February 1940 · Died: 23 July 2021 · Age at death: 81
How old was Toshihide Maskawa when he died?
Toshihide Maskawa died aged 81. He was born on 7 February 1940 and died on 23 July 2021.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist who studied the origin of broken symmetry
Did you know?He initially refused to travel to Stockholm to collect his Nobel Prize because he did not have a valid passport and had never travelled abroad.
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…
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- Age at death
- 81
- Would be
- 86
- Years since death
- 5
- Born
- February 7, 1940 · Nagoya, Japan
- Died
- July 23, 2021
- Cause of death
- Cancer
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Known for
- Science
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