is a Japanese-born physicist with notable contributions in the fields of particle physics and cosmology. He is currently a professor at the Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and was the Director of the

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at the University of Tokyo.

Biography

Born in Japan in 1964, Murayama obtained his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Tokyo in 1986. He completed his Ph.D. in Tokyo in 1991. In 1993, he emigrated to the US to join the

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as a post-doctoral research fellow. In 1995, he was appointed as an associate professor in University of California, Berkeley, where he became a full professor of physics in 2000. He is the founding director of the

(Kavli IPMU) at the University of Tokyo since 2007. In addition, he has been a visiting scientist at

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since 2016. In 2013, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was chosen as a fellow of the

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. In October 2014, he delivered an invited lecture titled "Science for Peace and Development" at the Headquarters of the United Nations in an event honoring the 60th anniversary of

Scientific Work

Professor Murayama is involved in the KamLAND neutrino experiment at the

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, an underground neutrino detection facility near

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. The KamLAND collaboration won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016. In 1998, Murayama, Gian Giudice, Markus Luty and Riccardo Rattazzi discovered " anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking, a subtle quantum mechanical mechanism which contributes to the gaugino masses in supergravity".

Awards and honors

* Humboldt Prize (2018) * Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, as a member of the KamLAND collaboration * Nishinomiya Yukawa Commemoration Prize in Theoretical Physics * Fellow of

* Member of Science Council of Japan * Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences * Sloan Research Fellowship
David Saxon Lecture 2012 (UCLA)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Murayama, Hitoshi Japanese physicists University of Tokyo alumni Academic staff of the University of Tokyo Japanese emigrants to the United States Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society University of California, Berkeley faculty Living people People associated with CERN Sloan Research Fellows 1964 births