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(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Yamane Kazuma
In December 2002, two Japanese citizens received the Nobel Prize. Theoretical physicist Koshiba Masatoshi (1926-), Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, received the prize in physics, and Tanaka Koichi (1959-), a technical employee at Shimadzu Corp., received the prize in chemistry. Both were joint recipients with other researchers working in the same fields.
Koshiba created the Kamiokande (Kamioka Nucleon Decay Experiment), a giant device for observing elementary particles, deep inside a former zinc mine in Kamioka, Gifu Prefecture in mountainous central Japan. In ...