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.

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Yoichiro Nambu canonical 20
Noboru Nambu 1
Yoichi Nambu 1

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instanceOf Nobel laureate in Physics ⓘ
human ⓘ
physicist ⓘ
theoretical physicist ⓘ
academicDegree Doctor of Science ⓘ
awardReceived Dirac Prize ⓘ
surface form: 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 self-link ⓘ
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, Illinois, United States ⓘ
surface form: Chicago
workplace Enrico Fermi Institute ⓘ

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University of Tokyo → hasNotableFaculty → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Peter Higgs → influencedBy → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Yoichiro Nambu → name → Yoichiro Nambu self-link ⓘ
Toshihide Maskawa → NobelPrizeSharedWith → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics → notableRecipient → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
string theory → earlyContributor → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Makoto Kobayashi → sharesNobelPrizeWith → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Shoichi Sakata → notableStudent → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Pomeranchuk Prize → hasNotableLaureate → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Yoichiro → nameBearer → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Nambu → hasNotableBearer → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
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this entity surface form: Yoichi Nambu
Nambu → hasNotableBearer → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
this entity surface form: Noboru Nambu
Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model → namedAfter → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model → originalAuthors → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Nambu–Goto action → namedAfter → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
JPS Nishina Memorial Prize → notableRecipient → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Maskawa → sharesNobelPrizeWith → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
subject surface form: Makoto Kobayashi
Yōichirō Suzuki → educatedBy → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Yōichirō Suzuki → doctoralAdvisor → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Yōichirō Suzuki → notableStudentOf → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ
Yōichirō Suzuki → doctoralStudiesCompletedUnder → Yoichiro Nambu ⓘ