Yoichiro Nambu


Yoichiro Nambu
南部 陽一郎
Born18 Januar 1921(1921-01-18)
Tokyo, Japan
Dee'd5 Julie 2015(2015-07-05) (aged 94)
Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
CitizenshipUnited States (1970-2015)
Alma materTokyo Imperial Varsity
Kent forSpontaneous symmetry breaking
Nambu–Goto action
AwairdsHeineman Prize (1970)
Order o Cultur o Japan (1978)
US Naitional Medal o Science (1982)
Dirac Medal (1986)
J.J. Sakurai Prize (1994)
Wolf Prize in Physics (1994/1995)
Pomeranchuk Prize (2007)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsVarsity o Tokyo (1942–49)
Osaka Ceety Varsity (1949–52)
Institute for Advanced Study (1952–54)
Varsity o Chicago (1954– 2015)

Yoichiro Nambu (南部 陽一郎, Nambu Yōichirō, 18 Januar 1921 – 5 Julie 2015) wis a Japanese-born American physicist, a professor at the Varsity o Chicago. Kent for his contreibutions tae the field o theoretical physics, he wis awairdit hauf o the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery in 1960 o the mechanism o spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, relatit at first tae the strang interaction's chiral symmetry an later tae the electroweak interaction an Higgs mechanism.

References

  1. ↑ "2008年ノーベル物理学賞受賞の南部陽一郎 大阪大学特別栄誉教授がご逝去されました". Osaka University. 17 Julie 2015. Retrieved 17 Julie 2015.
  2. ↑ Nambu, Yoichiro (2008). Karl Grandin (ed.). "Les Prix Nobel – The Nobel Prizes 2008". Stockholm: The Nobel Foundation. Archived frae the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 19 Julie 2015.