Search results
Theoretical physicists
- Visionary theorist who shaped modern particle physics. Yoichiro Nambu was one of the most influential theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. His deep and unexpected insights often took years for others to understand and fully appreciate.
www.nature.com/articles/524416a
People also ask
Who was Yoichiro Nambu?
Why did Yoichiro Nambu win a Nobel Prize?
Why did Yoichiro Nambu come to the University of Chicago?
Why was Nambu a great physicist?
Yoichiro Nambu (南部 陽一郎, Nanbu Yōichirō, 18 January 1921 – 5 July 2015) was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.
Jul 1, 2024 · Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-born American physicist who was awarded, with Kobayashi Makoto and Maskawa Toshihide, the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics. Nambu received half of the prize for his discovery of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, which explained why matter is much more.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 5, 2015 · Born: 18 January 1921, Tokyo, Japan. Died: 5 July 2015, Osaka, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”. Prize share: 1/2.
Nov 13, 2015 · Nambu soon achieved a landmark in the history of 20th century physics: the discovery that a vacuum can break symmetries spontaneously. And he came up with the idea while working in a rather different area of physics: superconductivity.
Aug 26, 2015 · Visionary theorist who shaped modern particle physics. Yoichiro Nambu was one of the most influential theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. His deep and unexpected insights often...
- Michael S. Turner
- mturner@kicp.uchicago.edu
- 2015
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 was divided, one half awarded to Yoichiro Nambu "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics", the other half jointly to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families ...
Prof. Yoichiro Nambu (shown here in 1979) won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic particle physics. “Each of these fundamental theories owe their existence to Nambu’s deep insights,” said physics Professor Emil Martinec, director of the Enrico Fermi Institute.
