Half of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Yoichiro Nambu “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”.
The other half will be split between Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”.
Nature News’s physics guru Geoff Brumfiel will have the full story for you soon…
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