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October 7, 2008

American, Japanese Win Nobel Physics Prize
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Yoichiro Nambu of US recognized for discovery of spontaneous broken
symmetry in subatomic physics, Japanese will share prize for discovery
of broken symmetry origin 
Two Japanese scientists and one American of Japanese origin have won the
2008 Nobel prize in physics. The Nobel commission in Stockholm, Sweden,
recognized Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan for their
discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the
existence of at least three families of quarks in nature. Quarks are a
type of subatomic particle.2008 Nobel Peace Prize winner for Physics,
Japanese-born Yoichiro Nambu, 87, US researcher at the University of
Chicago Yoichiro Nambu of the United States receives his part of the
prize for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry
in subatomic physics. His findings help explain why the universe is made
up of mostly matter and not its opposite, anti-matter. The Nobel prize
commission said Tuesday that these connected discoveries explain how the
cosmos has survived, since equal amounts of matter and anti-matter would
have annihilated one another. Four more Nobel prizes will be announced
during the next six days, with the peace prize recipient being revealed
Friday.

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