Yoichiro Nambu

seorang ahli fizik teori Jepun-Amerika dan profesor di Universiti Chicago. Terkenal dengan sumbangannya kepada fizik teori, dia dianugerahkan separuh daripada Hadiah Nobel Fizik 2008 atas penemuannya pada 1960 berkaitan mekanisme pecahan simetri spontan dan mekanisme Higgs. Separuh lagi hadiah dibahagikan sama rata antara Makoto Kobayashi dan Toshihide Maskawa "atas penemuan asal usul simetri pecahan yang meramalkan kewujudan sekurang-kurangnya tiga keluarga kuark dalam alam."

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 Yoichiro Nambu, Department of Physics faculty profile, University of Chicago
 Profile, Scientific American Magazine
  Yoichiro Nambu, Sc.D. Biographical Information
 Nambu's most-cited scientific papers
 Yoichiro Nambu's earliest book for the scientific layman 
 Yoichiro Nambu's previously unpublished material, including an original article on spontaneously broken symmetry 
 Interview at the AIP Oral History site (July 16, 2004)
 "A History of Nobel Physicists from Wartime Japan"  Article published in the December 1998 issue of Scientific American, co-authored by Laurie Brown and Yoichiro Nambu
Tribute upon Prof. Nambu passing by former student Dr. Madhusree Mukerjee

Kelahiran 1921
Kematian 2015
Ahli fizik Jepun
Ahli fizik Amerika Syarikat
Penerima Hadiah Nobel dalam Fizik
Ahli fizik teori