Keynote Speech by Toshihide Maskawa, Professor of Kyoto Sangyo University at Nagoya Congress Center

Toshihide Masukawa was born in Nagoya in 1940. Graduated from the Faculty of Science, Nagoya University. After working as an associate professor at the University of Tokyo and a professor at Kyoto University, he was appointed to his current position in 2003. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for his discovery of the origin of the symmetry breaking that predicts the number of generations of quarks. On October 18, "Message to the Next Generation," a forum with Nobel laureates, was held at the Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya City. It was also a commemorative event marking the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Yomiuri Shimbun Chubu. The theme was "Looking to the World, Taking on the Challenges of Science," and Toshihide Maskawa, professor at Kyoto Sangyo University, delivered the keynote speech. Photo taken on October 18, 2014, at the Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya. (Forum with Nobel Laureates in Nagoya = Special Feature No. 1), published in the November 13 morning edition of the same year.