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Yoichiro Nambu
南部 陽一郎
Nambu in 2005
Born(1921-01-18)18 January 1921
Tokyo, Japan
Died5 July 2015(2015-07-05) (aged 94)
Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
CitizenshipUnited States (from 1970)
Alma materTokyo Imperial University
Known forSpontaneous symmetry breaking
String theory
Nambu–Goto action
Nambu-Goldstone boson
Nambu mechanics
Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model
SpouseChieko Hida
ChildrenJohn Nambu (son)
AwardsHeineman Prize (1970)
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1976)
Order of Culture of Japan (1978)
US National Medal of Science (1982)
Max Planck Medal (1985)
Dirac Medal (1986)
J.J. Sakurai Prize (1994)
Wolf Prize in Physics (1994/1995)
Franklin Medal (2005)
Pomeranchuk Prize (2007)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Tokyo (1942–49)
Osaka City University (1949–52)
Institute for Advanced Study (1952–54)
University of Chicago (1954– 2015)

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]

  1. ^ a b Nambu, 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.

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