Nobel Laureate Physicist Koshiba Masatoshi Dies

Nobel laureate physicist Koshiba Masatoshi dies

Japanese Nobel Prize winner in physics Koshiba Masatoshi died on Thursday at a hospital in Tokyo. He was 94.

Koshiba won the prize in 2002 for founding "neutrino-astronomy," the study of the mechanism of stellar evolution by observing elementary particles called neutrinos.

Physics Nobel Laureate Koshiba Masatoshi Dies

Physics Nobel laureate Koshiba Masatoshi dies

A Japanese Nobel Prize winner in physics, Koshiba Masatoshi, died on Thursday at a hospital in Tokyo. He was 94.

Koshiba won the prize in 2002 for founding a new field, "neutrino-astronomy," which explores the mechanism of stellar evolution by observing elementary particles called neutrinos.

Two Japanese Listed As Potential Nobel Winners

Two Japanese listed as potential Nobel winners

Two Japanese researchers are among potential Nobel laureates in a list released by a US scientific information service firm. This year's winners will be announced starting from October 5.

Clarivate Analytics has released a list of 24 influential researchers from six countries whose work, it says, is worthy of a Nobel Prize. The firm chose them after analyzing about 50 million papers.