Hidetoshi Katori

Institution
RIKEN

Country
Japan

Field
Physics

Katori was co-awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics along with Jun Ye of the US for their invention and development of the optical lattice clock, enabling precision testing of nature’s most fundamental laws.

(Photo: University of Tokyo)

AWARDS
  • 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

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