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Yoichiro Nambu (南部 陽一郎, Nanbu Yōichirō, 18 January 1921 – 5 July 2015) was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago . 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 ...
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Jul 5, 2015 · 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 ...
Apr 30, 2024 · gluon. string theory. Yoichiro Nambu (born January 18, 1921, Tokyo, Japan—died July 5, 2015, Ōsaka) 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 ...
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Physicist Yoichiro Nambu once said he came to the University of Chicago in 1954 because of the “many great names” in physics at the University, including Nobel laureates such as Enrico Fermi. Nambu became a major figure in his own right during his long tenure at UChicago, culminating in winning a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for ...
Jul 18, 2015 · Yoichiro Nambu (pronounced YOI-cheer-o NAM-boo) was born on Jan. 18, 1921, in Tokyo and grew up in Fukui, northwest of Kyoto. His interest in science was inspired by science magazines that his ...
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Aug 26, 2015 · Nambu, who died of a heart attack on 5 July in Osaka, Japan, was born in Tokyo in 1921. It was the year that Yoshio Nishina visited Copenhagen and brought back quantum mechanics to Kyoto, Japan's ...
Oct 7, 2008 · Profile: Yoichiro Nambu in 1995. Editor's note: This story was originally posted in the February 1995 issue, and has been reposted to highlight the long intertwined history of the Nobel Prizes in ...
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