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Yoichiro Nambu - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Early life and education. Career in physics. Death. Recognition. See also. References. External links. 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 .
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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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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 his theory about the workings of the subatomic world. Nambu, 94, died on July 5 in Osaka, Japan, after an acute heart attack.
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Aug 26, 2015 · Visionary theorist who shaped modern particle physics. Yoichiro Nambu was one of the most influential theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. His deep and unexpected insights often...
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Jul 18, 2015 · Yoichiro Nambu, a particle physicist at the University of Chicago whose mathematical description of the phenomenon known as spontaneous symmetry breaking helped explain the interaction of...
Oct 7, 2008 · Profile: Yoichiro Nambu in 1995. Strings and gluons--The seer, this year's physics Nobel laureate, saw them all. By Madhusree Mukerjee. The Sciences. Editor's note: This story was originally...
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: 1/2.
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