Nobel Prize 2008 Announcements
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 with one half to
Yoichiro Nambu
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA
"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
and the other half jointly to
Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan
and
Toshihide Maskawa,Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan
"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
For more details, visit http://nobelprize.org/
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 with one half to
Yoichiro Nambu
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA
"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
and the other half jointly to
Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan
and
Toshihide Maskawa,Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan
"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
For more details, visit http://nobelprize.org/