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Takaaki Kajita (梶田 隆章, Kajita Takaaki, Japanese pronunciation: [kadʑita takaːki]; born 9 March 1959) is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande.
His doctoral advisor was the future Nobel Laureate Masatoshi Koshiba. Since 1988 he is affiliated with the Institute for Cosmic Radiation Research, University of Tokyo, and in 2015 he became its director. He is also a professor at the University of Tokyo. Takaaki Kajita is married to Michiko Kajita.
Biographical. I was born on March 9, 1959, in Higashi-Matsuyama, a small city located about an hour’s train ride north of Tokyo. My house was located in the countryside, surrounded by rice fields on the north, east, and south. I grew up in such a peaceful environment.
May 9, 2024 · Kajita Takaaki (born 1959, Higashimatsuyama, Japan) is a Japanese physicist who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the oscillations of neutrinos from one flavour to another, which proved that those subatomic particles have mass.
Sep 30, 2021 · Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of neutrino oscillations. He also led the construction of KAGRA, a new gravitational-wave observatory in Japan, and became the president of the Science Council of Japan in 2020.
Telephone interview with Takaaki Kajita immediately following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, 6 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media.
Oct 7, 2015 · Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo and Arthur B. McDonald of Queen’s University in Ontario were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discovering that the enigmatic...
