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Japanese-American nobel-winning physicist

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

Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in for the discovery in 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.^[1]

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."^[1]

Early life and education

Nambu was born on 18 January in Tokyo, Empire of Japan (Now Japan).

After graduating from the then-Fukui Secondary High School in Fukui City, he enrolled in the Imperial University of Toky