2008 Nobel laureate in physics Masukawa dies at 81

Toshihide Masukawa, a 2008 Nobel laureate in physics known for his theory on elementary particles, has died at his home in Kyoto due to an aggressive form of mouth cancer, a Japanese university said Thursday. He was 81.The Japanese physicist, who died last Friday of carcinoma of the maxillary gingival, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics that year with two other Japanese scientists, Makoto Kobayashi and Yoichiro Nambu, who held U.S. citizenship, recognized for their contribution to the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry.Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, trained u…READ FULL ARTICLE