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Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery in 1960 of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, related at first to the strong interaction 's chiral symmetry and later to the electroweak interaction and Higgs mechanism. [1]
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Yoichiro Nambu. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008. Born: 18 January 1921, Tokyo, Japan. Died: 5 July 2015, Osaka, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics” Prize share: 1/2.
Apr 30, 2024 · Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-born American physicist who was awarded, with Kobayashi Makoto and Maskawa Toshihide, the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics. Nambu received half of the prize for his discovery of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, which explained why matter is much more.
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Prof. Yoichiro Nambu (shown here in 1979) won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic particle physics. “Each of these fundamental theories owe their existence to Nambu’s deep insights,” said physics Professor Emil Martinec, director of the Enrico Fermi Institute.
Jul 18, 2015 · By William Grimes. July 17, 2015. Yoichiro Nambu, a particle physicist at the University of Chicago whose mathematical description of the phenomenon known as spontaneous symmetry breaking...
Yoichiro Nambu. Nobel Lecture. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics: a Case of Cross Fertilization. The Nobel Lecture of Yoichiro Nambu was presented by Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy, 8 December 2008, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University.
Aug 26, 2015 · They include: spontaneous symmetry breaking, for which he was awarded half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics; the theory of quarks and gluons; and string theory. Modern particle theory is...
