YOICHIRO NAMBU

2008 Nobel Laureate in Physics

for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics

• Born: 1921
• Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
• Nationality: USA
• Residence: USA
• Affiliation: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
  • Address:
    5640 South Ellis Avenue
    Chicago, IL 60637 USA
    
• Tel: +1 773 702-7286
• Fax: +1 773 834-2222
• E-mail: nambu@theory.uchicago.edu
• Education:
  • University of Tokyo, B.S. 1942
  • University of Tokyo, D.Sc. 1952

• Broken Symmetry: Selected Papers of Y. Nambu (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics, Vol 13) by Y. Nambu (Author), T. Eguchi (Editor), K. Nishijima (Editor)
• Quarks: Frontiers in Elementary Particle Physics by Y. Nambu
• Books on Broken Symmetry
• Books on/by Y Nambu

• Prize co-recipient:Makoto Kobayashi
• Prize co-recipient:Toshihide Maskawa
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