The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
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| Photo: University of Chicago | © The Nobel Foundation Photo: U. Montan | © The Nobel Foundation Photo: U. Montan |
 1/2 of the prize |
 1/4 of the prize |
1/4 of the prize |
| USA | Japan | Japan |
| Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA |
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) Tsukuba, Japan |
Kyoto Sangyo University; Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan |
| b. 1921 (in Tokyo, Japan) |
b. 1944 | b. 1940 |
Titles, data and places given above refer to the time of the award.
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