
Masatoshi Koshiba
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Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊, Koshiba Masatoshi; 19 September 1926 – 12 November 2020) was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in detecting solar neutrinos, providing experimental evidence for the solar neutrino problem. Koshiba won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, jointly with Raymond Davis Jr., "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cos
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Masatoshi Koshiba, 94, Dies; Nobel Winner Tracked Ghostly Neutrinos (Published 2020)
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Masatoshi Koshiba, scientist who shared 2002 Nobel Prize in physics, dies at 94