The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

Toshihide Maskawa receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2008. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2008
Photo: Hans Mehlin

Toshihide Maskawa after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2008. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2008
Photo: Hans Mehlin

The 2008 Nobel Laureates assembled for a group photo during their visit to the Nobel Foundation, 12 December 2008. Back row, left to right: Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie, Nobel Laureate in Literature Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Economics Laureate Paul Krugman and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Harald zur Hausen. Front row, left to right: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Roger Y. Tsien, Nobel Laureates in Physics Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier.

Toshihide Maskawa (right) in conversation with Professor Taichi Kugo (left), a colleague from Kyoto University, during the Nobel Foundation reception at the Nordic Museum, Stockholm, 9 December 2008.

Toshihide Maskawa (second from right) with his wife Akiko (far right), Toyoko Tsugane-Reinius (far left) and Professor Taichi Kugo (second from left) during the Nobel Foundation reception at the Nordic Museum, Stockholm, 9 December 2008.

Toshihide Maskawa delivering his Nobel Lecture at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 8 December 2008. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2008
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