13 Facts About Masatoshi Koshiba

Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy.

Masatoshi Koshiba was a senior counselor at the International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and professor at the University of Tokyo.

Masatoshi Koshiba was born in Toyohashi in central Japan on September 19,1926, to Toshio and Hayako Masatoshi Koshiba.

Masatoshi Koshiba's mother died when he was three, leading to his father marrying his wife's elder sister.

Masatoshi Koshiba grew up in Yokosuka, and completed his high school in Tokyo.

Masatoshi Koshiba graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1951 and received a PhD in physics from the University of Rochester, New York, in 1955.

Masatoshi Koshiba started his career as a research associate at the Department of Physics, University of Chicago from July 1955 to February 1958, and was an associate professor at Institute of Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo from March 1958 to October 1963.

Masatoshi Koshiba's research was pioneering in the establishment of neutrino astronomy as a field of study.

In 2003, the Masatoshi Koshiba Prize was created in his honor.

Masatoshi Koshiba was a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and a foreign fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.

Masatoshi Koshiba was a founding member of the Edogawa NICHE Prize Steering committee.

Masatoshi Koshiba married Kyoto Kato, an art museum curator, when he returned to Japan in the late 1950s.

Masatoshi Koshiba died on November 12,2020, at the Edogawa Hospital in Tokyo at the age of 94.