The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Yoichiro Nambu, “for the discovery of the m
echanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics” and to Makoto Ko
bayashi and Toshihide Maskawa “for the discovery of the origin of the broken s
ymmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in n
ature”.
“for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”
Yoichiro Nambu
1/2 of the prize
USA
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
b. 1921
“for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”
Makoto Kobayashi
1/4 of the prize
Japan
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Tsukuba, Japan
b. 1944
Toshihide Maskawa
1/4 of the prize
Japan
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan
b. 1940
佩服日本的科学！
why does not hold Nobel Prize in China, I’m disapointed.