RENOWNED PHYSICIST RECEIVES DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD

Masatoshi Koshiba '55 (PhD), one of the century's foremost physicists, was presented with a Distinguished Scholar award during graduate Commencement exercises last spring.

Koshiba, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Tokyo, received the prestigious Wolf Prize in physics from the president of Israel last May for his work in discovering that an elusive set of subatomic particles, known as neutrinos, have mass.

Koshiba led the effort to build a detector deep in a Japanese mine that was able to detect neutrinos emanating from the sun and prove that they must have mass. The discovery solved one of the great mysteries of 20th-century physics.

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