Masatoshi Koshiba, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, died 94 years old

Masatoshi Koshiba, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, died 94 years old November 13, 12:10

Masatoshi Koshiba, a special honorary professor at the University of Tokyo, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for successfully observing "neutrinos", one of the elementary particles that form the basis of matter, and opening up a new field called "neutrino astronomy", is aging on the night of the 12th. Died at a hospital in Tokyo.

I was 94 years old.

Mr. Koshiba was born in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, and after graduating from the Faculty of Science of the University of Tokyo, he was a professor of the Faculty of Science of the University of Tokyo from 1970 to 1987, and set up an observation facility "Kamiokande" in the basement of the Kamioka Mine in Gifu Prefecture. For the first time in the world, we succeeded in observing one of the elementary particles that form the basis of the substance.

Mr. Koshiba's achievements opened up a new field called "neutrino astronomy" and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.