Talk:Kobayashi

Name trivia (also applies to Nambu and Maskawa)
Kobayashi, Nambu and Maskawa are the names of the three Japanese Nobel Laureates in Physics from 2008. "Kobayashi" is a very common Japanese family name, so the fact that there is an instance of "Kobayashi" in Star Trek is probably just a coincidence. "Sakata" is also the name of another famous Japanese theoretical physicist. On a side note, while there do not seem to be any particularly famous "Yakawas", the first Japanese Nobel Laureate was a physicist named "Yukawa". I have no idea about Karumto, though -- doesn't sound/look Japanese at all. Rtl42 10:52, January 29, 2011 (UTC)