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Takaaki Kajita
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| Born | 9 March 1959 Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan
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| Education | Saitama Prefectural Kawagoe High School |
| Alma mater | Saitama University (B.S.) University of Tokyo (M.S., Ph.D.) |
| Spouse(s) | Michiko |
| Awards | Asahi Prize (1988) Bruno Rossi Prize (1989) Nishina Memorial Prize (1999) Panofsky Prize (2002) Japan Academy Prize (2012) Nobel Prize in Physics (2015) Fundamental Physics Prize (2016) |
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| Institutions | Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo |
| Doctoral advisor | Masatoshi Koshiba |
| Other academic advisors | Yoji Totsuka |
Takaaki Kajita (born 9 March 1959) is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald. On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.
Honors
- 2015 – Order of Culture, Person of Cultural Merit
- 2016 – Doctorate in Science (DSc), Aligarh Muslim University, India
- 2016 – Honoris Causa Degree, Higher University of San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia.
- 2017 – Honoris Causa Degree in Physics, University of Naples Federico II
- 2017 – Honoris Causa Degree in Physics, University of Bern
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