Laureate

Takaaki Kajita

Born 1959 · Japan · Male

Awards

  1. 2015

    Nobel Prize — Physics

    Physics

    for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass

  2. 2016

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

    Physics

    For the fundamental discovery and exploration of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the standard model of particle physics.