Kazuhiko Nishijima, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kazuhiko Nishijima

Japanese physicist

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1926

Place of Birth: Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 15-Feb-2009

Profession: physicist, university teacher, theoretical physicist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Kazuhiko Nishijima (?? ??, Nishijima Kazuhiko) (4 October 1926 – 15 February 2009) was a Japanese physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics.
He was professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University until his death in 2009.He was born in Tsuchiura, Japan.
He is most well known for his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "?-charge", after the eta meson (?).He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 and 1961.