Physics Nobel Winners

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nambu, Kobayashi and Maskawa win Physics Nobel:
> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=nambu-kobayashi-maskawa-nobel

7 October 2008

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel
Prize in Physics for 2008 with one half to

Yoichiro Nambu
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA

"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in
subatomic physics"

and the other half jointly to

Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK),
Tsukuba, Japan

and

Toshihide Maskawa,Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP),
Kyoto University, Japan

"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts
the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/press.html

Prize Announcement

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/announcement.html

Announcement of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics (2 minutes)

http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=999

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/index.html