“Discovery of Broken Symmetries”
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Yoichiro Nambu, USA and jointly to Makoto Kobayashi, Japan and Toshihide Maskawa, Japan for their “discovery of Broken Symmetries”. This year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics have presented theoretical insights that give us a deeper understanding of what happens far inside the tiniest building blocks of matter.
Yoichiro Nambu
1/2 of the prize
USA
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
Makoto Kobayashi
1/4 of the prize
Japan
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Tsukuba, Japan
"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
Toshihide Maskawa
1/4 of the prize
Japan
Kyoto Sangyo University; Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan
"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
