Yōichirō Suzuki

Yōichirō Suzuki ( Japanese 鈴木 洋 一郎 , Suzuki Yōichirō ; * around 1952 ) is a Japanese physicist who deals with neutrino physics. He is director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at the University of Tokyo and the Kamioka Observatory there and spokesman for the Super-Kamiokande collaboration. Suzuki demonstrated solar neutrino oscillations with the Super-Kamiokande collaboration .

He is Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU).

Suzuki studied physics at the University of Kyoto with a bachelor's degree in 1974 and a master's degree in 1976 and received his doctorate there in 1979. As a post-graduate student , he was at Brown University , where he became an assistant professor in 1981. From 1981 to 1989 he conducted research at the University of Osaka and from 1989 he was assistant professor and from 1996 professor at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at the University of Tokyo. From 2002 he was director of the Kamioka Observatory and from 2004 director of the institute. From 2003 to 2004 he was an advisor to the university president.

In 1999 he received the Asahi Prize (with and for the Super-Kamiokande collaboration), in 2001 the Nishina Prize and in 2010 the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize . In 2016 he was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics .

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• biography
• Oral History Interview

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Suzuki is the family name, Yōichirō the first name.