THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 30, 2021 at 18:52 JST
Toshihide Maskawa speaks on the fourth anniversary of the founding of the Scientist Society of Article 9 in Tokyo in 2009. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Toshihide Maskawa, a dedicated peace advocate who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical research on elementary particles, died on July 23. He was 81. [Read More]
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