Masatoshi koshiba biography of williams

by Luisa Bonolis

Masatoshi Koshiba

Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 together with Raymond Davis Jr. and Riccardo Giacconi "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos".

From Tokyo to Chicago University and Back: Cosmic Rays and Accelerators

Masatoshi Koshiba was born in 1926 in Toyohashi, a city near Nagoya, Japan. His father was an army officer, so when Masatoshi was 13, he had to enter the military school during the war. However, one month before the entrance examination, he got polio, which made his right arm numb, making him exempt from military service during the war. As he could not do anything athletic, his hobby at the time was to build from scratch model airplanes, made with bamboo and powered by a rubber band. He was seriously thinking of becoming a model airplane shop owner, but at the same time he liked mathematics and during his illness he rea