An American physicist from Chicago is celebrating a Nobel Prize win for an advanced physics concept he helped formulate more than four decades ago. Yoichiro Nambu, an 87-year-old scientist with the University of Chicago, was one of three recipients of the highly esteemed honor, announced Tuesday. The prize spotlights the discovery of a particle physics process called “spontaneous broken symmetry.” Nambu — who was born in Japan but has been in the U.S. since the early ’50s — shares the Nobel with two Japanese physicists, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa.
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Scientists Win Physics Nobel for Particle Theory Advances
Posted by: JR Raphael October 7, 2008 11:52 AMAn American physicist from Chicago is celebrating a Nobel Prize win for an advanced physics concept he helped formulate more than four decades ago. Yoichiro Nambu, an 87-year-old scientist with the University of Chicago, was one of three recipients of the highly esteemed honor, announced Tuesday. The prize spotlights the discovery of a particle physics process called “spontaneous broken symmetry.” Nambu — who was born in Japan but has been in the U.S. since the early ’50s — shares the Nobel with two Japanese physicists, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa.