In which century did Maskawa accomplish his Nobel-winning work?
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Answer
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 was awarded jointly to Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature". Maskawa did his Nobel-winning work in the 20th century.
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