Maskawa shared half the 2008 Nobel prize with the Japanese physicist Makoto Kobayashi for their work on the mechanism of “broken symmetry” that led to the prediction of a new family of quarks.
A group of US national laboratories, publishers, journals and other organizations is making it easier for researchers to update their names on past publications.
His discoveries deepened understanding of the basic forces at play in the universe, and he took general readers back to its dawn in his book The First Three Minutes.
New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.