The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
Awarded on: 2008-10-07
"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
Affiliations:
- Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago – Chicago, IL, USA
Yoichiro Nambu
Born: 1921-01-18 in Tokyo, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese-American nobel-winning physicist
Biography
Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.