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October 06, 2015•Update: October 07, 2015
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The 2015 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Takaaki Kajita from Japan and Arthur McDonald from Canada on Tuesday.
The Nobel Committee rewarded the two scientists for their work on neutrinos, ubiquitous subatomic particles that are extremely difficult to study.
Takaaki, 56, works as a director at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and as a professor at the University of Tokyo while 72-year-old professor Arthur McDonald is located at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
Kajita and McDonald will share the prize of 8 million Swedish kronor ($964,342).
The Committee will announce the winners of the chemistry prize on Wednesday and of the literature prize on Thursday. In addition, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient will be revealed on Friday. The economics prize will be revealed on Oct. 12.
