When was Yoichiro Nambu born?

Yoichiro Nambu was born on 18 January 1921 in Tokyo.

Where did Yoichiro Nambu study?

Yoichiro Nambu was educated at University of Tokyo, Princeton University, Fukui Prefectural Fujishima High School.

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Yoichiro Nambu

American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)

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Yoichiro Nambu (南部陽一郎, Nanbu Yōichirō; 18 January 1921 – 5 July 2015) was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.

Quick facts

Born: 18 January 1921 wd
Place of birth: Tokyo wd
Died: 5 July 2015 wd
Place of death: Toyonaka wd
Citizenship: United States, Japan wd
Occupation: theoretical physicist, professor, physicist, researcher wd
Education: University of Tokyo, Princeton University, Fukui Prefectural Fujishima High School wd

Awards wd

Guggenheim Fellowship
Order of Culture (1978)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2008)
Benjamin Franklin Medal (2005)
Oskar Klein Medal (2005)
National Medal of Science (1982)
Max Planck Medal (1985)
Wolf Prize in Physics (1994)
Person of Cultural Merit (1978)
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1976)
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1970)
Sakurai Prize (1994)
Pomeranchuk Prize (2007)
ICTP Dirac Medal (1986)

About

Known for his groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics, Nambu was the originator of the theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking, a concept that revolutionized particle physics. He was also a pioneer of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), one of the founding figures of string theory, and the proposer of Nambu mechanics. In addition, he co-created the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model, which explained the dynamical origin of mass in nucleons.

He was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery in 1960 of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, related at first to the strong interaction's chiral symmetry and later to the electroweak interaction and Higgs mechanism. The other half was split equally 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".

Questions

When was Yoichiro Nambu born?: Yoichiro Nambu was born on 18 January 1921 in Tokyo.
Where did Yoichiro Nambu study?: Yoichiro Nambu was educated at University of Tokyo, Princeton University, Fukui Prefectural Fujishima High School.

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