"I never did my homework": How Toshihide Maskawa, Nobel laureate in physics, turned curiosity and persistence into groundbreaking discoveries

Toshihide Maskawa
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Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide; 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) was a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 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."
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Toshihide Maskawa, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for solving a mystery of the Big Bang and the creation of the universe
Toshihide Maskawa, 81, Dies; Nobelist Helped Unlock a Cosmic Mystery (Published 2021)
2008 Nobel Prize Goes to Nambu, Kobayashi and Maskawa for Work on Broken Symmetries
Physics Nobel Prize to Nambu, Kobayashi, and Maskawa for theories of symmetry breaking