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Japanese, U.S. physicists to share Israel's Wolf Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who will share the 2000 Wolf Prize in physics with a U.S. scientist, is shown in a file photo. The Israel-based Wolf Foundation said on Jan. 18 Koshiba, 73, and Raymond Davis Jr., 85, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will share the 100,000 dollar prize, to be presented in Jerusalem in May. Koshiba has led a series of experiments on neutrinos, using the Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande detectors in the town of Kamioka, Gifu Prefecture, to study the subatomic particles emitted by supernovas.

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Japanese, U.S. physicists to share Israel's Wolf Prize