Yoichiro Nambu
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Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American theoretical physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to understanding the fundamental forces and particles that make up our universe. His work, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008, helped shape modern particle physics and our understanding of how matter behaves at the smallest scales.
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- 1921-01-18
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- 2015-07-05
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- Elementary Particle Physics Vol. 1
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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.
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.
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1921 births2015 deathsAcademic staff of the University of TokyoAmerican academics of Japanese descentAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican scientists of Asian descentAmerican string theoristsBenjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureatesImperial Japanese Army officersInstitute for Advanced Study visiting scholarsJapanese emigrants to the United States