Prize Announcement

Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Gunnar Öquist, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 7 October 2008. Introduction by Professor Joseph Nordgren, followed by a presentation on the prize-awarded work by Professor Lars Brink, and a telephone press conference with Nobel Laureate Makoto Kobayashi.

Following the announcement, Professor Per Carlson told senior editor Simon Frantz about the importance of broken symmetry in particle physics, and why broken symmetry helps us to understand how our Universe was created after the Big Bang.