The Asian Scientist 100
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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