Toshihide Maskawa

益川 敏英 Toshihide Maskawa
Born	(1940-02-07) 7 Februar 1940 Nagoya, Japan
Residence	Japan
Naitionality	Japan
Alma mater	Nagoya Varsity
Kent for	Wirk on CP violation CKM matrix
Awairds	Sakurai Prize (1985) Japan Academy Prize (1985) Asahi Prize (1994) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Heich energy pheesics (theory)
Institutions	Nagoya Varsity Kyoto Varsity Kyoto Sangyo Varsity
Doctoral advisor	Shoichi Sakata

Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide, born Februar 7, 1940 in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese theoretical pheesicist kent for his wirk on CP-violation wha wis awairdit ane quarter o the 2008 Nobel Prize in Pheesics "for the discovery o the origin o the broken symmetry which predicts the exeestence o at least three faimilies o quarks in naitur."