A Japanese Nobel laureate in physics came to Quy Nhon

Prof. Takaaki Kajita – a Japanese Nobel laureate in physics in 2015 came to Binh Dinh to attend the international conference “Particles, Strings and Cosmology”

This is a great international conference in the framework of “the 12^th Rencontres du Vietnam”. The conference attracts 146 well-known professors, scientists, both domestic and overseas and delegates.

Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh People’s Committee Tran Chau (left) met with Prof. Takaaki Kajita

Sharing the reason why the Professor came to Vietnam to attend the conference, prof. Takaaki Kajita said, “This is a very important conference in astrophysics, attracting a number of international professors, scientists and with interesting presentations at the conference. I would like to bring the passion of science to Vietnam, especially for Vietnamese youth. Human beings play the most important role for scientific development, so everybody must come to know that science is important to social life.”

Prof. Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist. In 2015, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics with Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.

Prof. Tran Thanh Van, Chairman of Rencontres du Vietnnam talked with Prof. Takaaki Kajita – a Japanese Nobel laureate in physics in 2015.

The Nobel laureate shared the reason for attending the conference.

Prof. Pham Quang Hung (right) discussed with a Japanese Nobel laureate.

As known, Kajita did his research at Saitama University and completed in 1981. He received his Ph.D in 1986 at Tokyo University. Since 1988, he has worked at the Institute of Distant Universe, Tokyo University, where he became an assistant professor in 1992 and a professor in 1999. In 2015, he worked at Kavli Institute for physics and mathematics of the Universe in Tokyo. He became a director of the Universe Neutrino Center at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) in 1999.

Thang Nguyen (Source: dantri.com.vn)