
Makoto Kobayashi
KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
Nobel Laureate in Physics (2008)
Professional bio
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature. He was affiliated with the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan.