Takaaki Kajita

Takaaki Kajita ( Japanese 梶田隆章 , Kajita Takaaki ; born March 9, 1959 in Higashimatsuyama ) is a Japanese physicist , known for neutrino experiments on the Kamiokande and its successor Super-Kamiokande . In 2015 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Arthur McDonald for “the discovery of neutrino oscillations that show that neutrinos have a mass” .

Life

Kajita graduated from Saitama University in 1981 and received her PhD from Tokyo University in 1986 . Since 1988 he has been at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at the University of Tokyo, where he became assistant professor in 1992 and professor in 1999. In 1999 he became director of the Center for Cosmic Neutrinos at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR). Today he is at the Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Tokyo and Director of the ICRR.

In 1988 he and the Kamiokande team discovered a deficit of muon neutrinos in atmospheric neutrinos, which they called "atmospheric neutrino anomaly" and which in 1998 traced back to neutrino oscillations .

Honors

1987: Asahi Prize as part of the Kamiokande developers
1989: Bruno Rossi Prize as part of the Kamiokande collaboration
1999: Asahi Prize as part of the Superkamiokande developers
1999: Nishina Prize (together with Kenzo Inoue , Akira Kakuto and Yasunobu Nakamura )
2002: Panofsky Prize (together with Masatoshi Koshiba and Yōji Totsuka )
2013: Julius Wess Prize
2015: Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Arthur McDonald )
2015: Order of Culture , Japan
2016: Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
2019: Homi Bhabha Medal and Prize for "Outstanding contributions to Cosmic Ray physics including path breaking work in neutrino physics"

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ [1] (Japanese)
^ History of the ICRR, 2012

personal data
SURNAME	Kajita, Takaaki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	梶田隆章 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Higashimatsuyama , Japan

[1] [1] (Japanese)

[2] History of the ICRR, 2012