Tuesday, April 18th: I got to briefly meet and shake hands with Dr. Toshihide Masukawa.
He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”.
He is also an alumnus of Koyo High School, where I am currently teaching.
He spoke and answered questions at the school which was hosting 100 students from India and Vietnam as part of the Sakura Project. (More on that later.)