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Yoichiro Nambu ( Nanbu Yichir , 18 January 1921 5 July 2015) was a

Japanese-born American physicist, a professor at the University of Chicago.[1] Known for his
contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded half of theNobel Prize in
Physics in 2008 for the discovery in 1960 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.[2] 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.
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