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Life beyond the Nobel: Takaaki Kajita and the hunt for gravitational waves

30 Sep 2021 Michael Banks

In the run-up to the announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics on 5 October, we’re running a series of blog posts looking at previous recipients and what they did after their Nobel prize-winning work. Michael Banks talks to neutrino pioneer Takaaki Kajita about the move into gravitational-wave research.

KAGRA tunnel
Tunnel vision: the KAGRA gravitational-wave observatory became operational in 2020 where it now joins the international hunt for gravitational waves. (Courtesy: ICRR)
For the past half a century, Japan has led the world in neutrino science. In the 1980s the Japanese

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