Yoichiro Nambu - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2008
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Yoichiro Nambu

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2008
for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics
Together with: Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa
Citizenship
JapanJapanUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
Japanese
date of birth
1/18/1921
place of birth
Tokyo
date of death
7/5/2015
place of death
Toyonaka
Lived
94 years

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occupation
  • professor
  • researcher
  • physicist
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • physics
educated at
  • Princeton University
  • Fukui Prefectural Fujishima High School
  • University of Tokyo
    • academic degree: Doctor of Science
    • academic major: physics
    • end time: 1952
employer
  • Osaka City University
  • Ritsumeikan University
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Tokyo
member of
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 4/12/1984
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1973
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
doctoral student
  • Ramon Brewster Hoff
  • Savas Dimopoulos
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