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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 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]
The other half was split equally between Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."[1]
^ abNambu, Yoichiro (2008). Karl Grandin (ed.). "Les Prix Nobel – The Nobel Prizes 2008". Stockholm: The Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
YoichiroNambu (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...
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of the quarks, and making pseudoscalar mesons exceptionally light. YoichiroNambu was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for elucidating the phenomenon...
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November 22, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. Along with YoichiroNambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green...
with masses related to spins in a way that was later understood by YoichiroNambu, Holger Bech Nielsen and Leonard Susskind to be the relationship expected...
all the same electron" with a complex, self-intersecting world line. YoichiroNambu later applied it to all production and annihilation of particle-antiparticle...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his methods of synthesizing crown ethers. YoichiroNambu won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum chromodynamics...
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proposed by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964, Moo-Young Han and YoichiroNambu introduced a hidden internal degree of freedom in which quark wave functions...
Japanese-born theorist and Nobel Prize laureate YoichiroNambu from the University of Chicago. Nambu had proposed a theory known as spontaneous symmetry...
three scientists for their work in subatomic physics symmetry breaking. YoichiroNambu, of the University of Chicago, won half of the prize for the discovery...
the gluons of QCD were Moo-Young Han and YoichiroNambu, who introduced the quark color charge. Han and Nambu hypothesized that it might be associated...
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