On December 26, 2008,
KEK awarded Professor Emeritus Makoto Kobayashi with a title of "Honorary Professor Emeritus".
This is the first case in KEK to reward someone with the title for his/her distinguished scientific
contribution to the institute.
The awarding ceremony will be held by KEK on February 1 in Tsukuba.
In 1973, Kobayashi, together with Professor Toshihide Maskawa, then at Kyoto University,
developed a pioneering work known as "Kobayashi-Maskawa Theory".
They explained the origin of the broken symmetry between particles and anti-particles
within the framework of the Standard Model particle physics.
Kobayashi moved into KEK in 1979,
and the theory has been confirmed by B-factory experiments at KEK and at SLAC,
which led the award of the Nobel Prize.
He had been contributing to the experiments from theoretical aspects,
promoting research projects as a trustee and a director of the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies of
KEK,
which led many achievements of studies in the field of high energy physics in Japan.
Kobayashi has received numerous awards in his research career such as:
the Nishina Memorial Prize by Nishina Memorial Foundation,
the J.J.Sakurai Prize by American Physical Society,
the Asahi Prize by Asahi Shimbun, the Chunichi Cultural Prize by Chunichi Shimbun,
the High Energy and Particle Physics Prizes by European Physical Society,
the Person of Cultural Merit Award and the Order of Culture both from Japanese government.
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