A physicist researching atmospheric neutrinos and neutrino oscillations.[ref]
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Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist known for his significant contributions to the field of particle physics and, in particular, for his work on neutrinos. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015, jointly with Arthur B. McDonald, for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which showed that neutrinos have mass. This discovery has important implications for our understanding of the universe, as it challenges the previously held notion that neutrinos were massless particles.