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- Yoichiro Nambu (1921-2015) was a Japanese-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, who served as professor at the University of Chicago from 1958 to 1991. Nambu is widely regarded as one of the great physicists of the twentieth century, and several of his contributions are considered foundational to the modern field of theoretical physics.
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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.
Biographical. I was born in 1921 in Tokyo and grew up in the provincial city of Fukui. I studied physics at the Imperial University of Tokyo from 1940 to 1942, graduating at the level of M.S. Then I was drafted into an army radar laboratory.
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 5, 2015 · 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.
May 25, 2016 · Yoichiro Nambu was an unusual physicist. When he proposed an idea, a frequent natural reaction of the audience was “How did he think of that?” He had an associative mind with a remarkable mathematical taste and a special feeling for algebraic structures.
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 ...
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