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The Nobel Laureates Yoichiro Nambu, University of Chicago, USA Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan Toshihide Maskawa, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Japan Earlier Nobel Prizes within the field Popular science articles Sarah Graham: “In Search of Antimatter”, Scientific American, August 2001. Helen Quinn & Michael Witherell: “The Asymmetry…
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Press release
Press release
English 7 October 2008 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 with one half to Yoichiro NambuEnrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics” and the other half jointly to Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK),…
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Arthur B. McDonald – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in 1943 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, a city of about 30,000 people on Cape Breton Island. My mother’s and father’s families were Scottish and French settlers who had come to Atlantic Canada in the 1700s and early 1800s. My father was a Lieutenant in the Canadian Army and left for Europe…
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