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Yoichiro Nambu (1921-2015) was a Japanese-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for his work on spontaneous symmetry breaking and related concepts. He also made contributions to quantum field theory, string theory, and particle physics.
Learn about Yoichiro Nambu, a Japanese-born American physicist who won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Find out his achievements, awards, and contributions to string theory and quantum chromodynamics.
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Yoichiro Nambu is a Japanese-American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for his work on spontaneous symmetry breaking. He studied and worked in Japan, the US, and Princeton, and made contributions to particle physics, condensed matter physics, and superconductivity.
Jul 5, 2015 · Yoichiro Nambu was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics. He proposed a mathematical framework to explain the violation of various symmetries in nature and the interactions of elementary particles.
Aug 26, 2015 · Yoichiro Nambu was one of the most influential theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. His deep and unexpected insights often took years for others to understand and fully...
- Michael S. Turner
- mturner@kicp.uchicago.edu
- 2015
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...
Learn about the life and achievements of Yoichiro Nambu, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics. He was a professor and a pioneer in string theory at the University of Chicago.
