Takaaki Kajita

Takaaki Kajita
梶田 隆章
Kajita in 2017
Born	(1959-03-09) 9 March 1959 (age 65) Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan
Education	Saitama Prefectural Kawagoe High School
Alma mater	Saitama University (BS) University of Tokyo (MS, PhD)
Spouse	Michiko
Awards	Asahi Prize (1988) Bruno Rossi Prize (1989) Nishina Memorial Prize (1999) Panofsky Prize (2002) Japan Academy Prize (2012) Nobel Prize in Physics (2015) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016)
Scientific career
Institutions	Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo
Doctoral advisor	Masatoshi Koshiba
Other academic advisors	Yoji Totsuka

Takaaki Kajita (梶田 隆章, Kajita Takaaki, Japanese pronunciation: [kadʑita takaːki]; born 9 March 1959) is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald. On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.