Masatoshi Koshiba

Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊 Koshiba Masatoshi, born on September 19, 1926 in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, School of Science in 1951 and received a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Rochester, New York, in 1955. From July 1955 to February 1958 he was Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Chicago; from March 1958 to Oct... more

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  • Sep 19, 1926 (age 83 years)

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Year Award Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 2002
  • for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos
  • 1998
  • for their pioneering observations of astronomical phenomena by detection of neutrinos, thus creating the emerging field of neutrino astronomy.
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