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Kazuhiko Nishijima

Native name: 西島和彦

Place of birth:

Tsuchiura Show on Google Maps

Birth date:

1926-10-04 • Birth Sign: Libra

Citizenship:

Japan, Empire of Japan

Death date:

2009-02-15 (82 years old)

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was a Japanese physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. He was professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University until his death in 2009. He was born in Tsuchiura, Japan. He is most well known for his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson (). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960, 1961, 1964, 1966~1970.

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