Makoto Kobayashi
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Makoto Kobayashi receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2008.
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Makoto Kobayashi after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2008.
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Makoto Kobayashi delivering his banquet speech
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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.
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Makoto Kobayashi (second from left) during the Nobel Foundation reception at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, 9 December 2008.
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Makoto Kobayashi delivering his Nobel Lecture at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 8 December 2008.
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Makoto Kobayashi, like many Nobel Laureates before him, autographs a chair at Kafé Satir at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 6 December 2008.
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Makoto Kobayashi at a press conference at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan, after the announcement of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Makoto Kobayashi is greeted with flowers by colleagues at KEK.
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Makoto Kobayashi (left) and Toshihide Maskawa (right), 2008 Nobel Laureates in Physics.
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Dr Kobayashi (left) and Dr Maskawa (right), 26 September 2001.
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The Belle Detector, which contributed to the confirmation of Kobayashi and Maskawa's theory.
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Makoto Kobayashi at a study room at Kyoto University.
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Makoto Kobayashi in grade-school years.
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Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.
