Yoichiro Nambu
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Who was Yoichiro Nambu?
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Yoichiro Nambu (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Awards & Honors
| Award | Year | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Nobel Prize in Physics | 2008 | for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics |
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