Toshihide Maskawa's Birth Card: The 5 of Spades

In the record

Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide; 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) was a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature." Maskawa was born in Nagoya, Japan. The birth-card coordinate for February 7 is the 5 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2008 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2008 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature

The 5 of Spades coordinate

Toshihide Maskawa's birthday maps to the 5 of Spades (The Restless Mind). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Toshihide Maskawa. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay in the hard stretch long enough to get better at it.

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Toshihide Maskawa in the public record

After World War II ended, the Maskawa family operated as sugar wholesalers. A native of Aichi Prefecture, Toshihide Maskawa graduated from Nagoya University in 1962 and received a Ph.D. degree in particle physics from the same university in 1967. His doctoral advisor was the physicist Shoichi Sakata. From early life Maskawa liked trivia, and studied mathematics, chemistry, linguistics and various books. In high school, he loved novels, especially detective and mystery stories and novels by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. At Kyoto University in the early 1970s, he collaborated with Makoto Kobayashi on explaining broken symmetry (the CP violation) within the Standard Model of particle physics. Maskawa and Kobayashi's theory required that there be at least three generations of quarks, a prediction that was confirmed experimentally four years later by the discovery of the bottom quark. Maskawa and Kobayashi's 1973 article, "CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction", is the fourth most cited high energy physics paper of all time as of 2010.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Toshihide Maskawa (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 10 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Toshihide Maskawa, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room. Your heart works at scale—you create belonging for families, groups, and communities, not just individuals. You're the one who makes everyone feel included, the emotional center of gravity in a room. Love, for you, is something you build collectively.

Toshihide Maskawa (or Masukawa) (益川 敏英, Masukawa Toshihide; 7 February 1940 – 23 July 2021) was a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature." Maskawa was born in Nagoya, Japan.

Paired on shared wording: families, work.

Also on the record

1. The Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, which defines the mixing parameters between quarks, was the result of this work.
2. Kobayashi and Maskawa were jointly awarded half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, with the other half going to Yoichiro Nambu.
3. Maskawa was director of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics from 1997 to 2003.
4. He was special professor and director general of the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe at Nagoya University, director of the Maskawa Institute for Science and Culture at Kyoto Sangyo University and professor emeritus at Kyoto University.

Other laureates with this card

• Daniel Kahneman — 2002 Economic Sciences
• H. Gobind Khorana — 1968 Physiology or Medicine
• James Tobin — 1981 Economic Sciences
• Nikolay Semenov — 1956 Chemistry
• Rigoberta Menchú Tum — 1992 Peace
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal — 1906 Physiology or Medicine
• Sinclair Lewis — 1930 Literature
• Tawakkol Karman — 2011 Peace
• Ulf von Euler — 1970 Physiology or Medicine

FAQ

What is Toshihide Maskawa's birth card?

The 5 of Spades. February 7 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do Toshihide Maskawa's dates come from?

Birth date 1940-02-07 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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