Yoichiro Nambu

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Nobel laureate in Physics human physicist theoretical physicist

Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate in Physics → human → physicist → theoretical physicist →
academicDegree	Doctor of Science →
awardReceived	Dirac Medal → J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize → National Medal of Science → Nobel Prize in Physics → Wolf Prize in Physics →
citizenship	Japan → United States of America →
countryOfBirth	Japan →
countryOfDeath	Japan →
dateOfBirth	1921-01-18 →
dateOfDeath	2015-07-05 →
doctoralAdvisor	Shoichi Sakata →
doctoralStudent	Holger Bech Nielsen → Leonard Susskind → Yōichirō Suzuki →
educatedAt	University of Tokyo →
employer	University of Chicago →
ethnicity	Japanese →
familyName	Nambu →
fieldOfWork	particle physics → quantum field theory → theoretical physics →
gender	male →
givenName	Yoichiro →
knownFor	Nambu–Goldstone bosons → Nambu–Goto action → Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model → pioneering work in string theory → spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics →
languageSpoken	English → Japanese →
name	Yoichiro Nambu →
NobelPrizeCategory	Physics →
NobelPrizeMotivation	for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics →
NobelPrizeYear	2008 →
notableConcept	gauge symmetry breaking → spontaneous symmetry breaking →
placeOfBirth	Tokyo →
placeOfDeath	Osaka →
positionHeld	Henry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor → professor at the University of Chicago →
residence	Chicago →
workplace	Enrico Fermi Institute →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
University of Tokyo →	hasNotableFaculty
Peter Higgs →	influencedBy
Yoichiro Nambu →	name
Toshihide Maskawa →	NobelPrizeSharedWith
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics →	notableRecipient