Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contribution in subatomic physics that help explain the behavior of the tiniest particles of matter.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Professor Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago half the 10 million kroner or roughly 1.4 million US dollar prize money for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.
And on the other side of the globe in Japan Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa will share the other half of the prestigious award for their explanation of why earlier experiments found that some subatomic particles failed to follow the rules of symmetry.
OCT 08, 2008
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