Nobel Prize in physics, 2008
firstname: Yoichiro
surname: Nambu
motivation: "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
firstname: Makoto
surname: Kobayashi
motivation: "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
firstname: Toshihide
surname: Maskawa
motivation: "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"