The nobel prize physics 2008 winners are Nambu, Kobayashi & Maskawa
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008The Nobel prize physics 2008 winners are U.S. citizen Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago, and Japanese researchers Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for work on “spontaneous broken symmetry” in subatomic physics.
The Nobel Prize for physics is the second award in a series of six, where annual prizes for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics are handed out in the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who died in 1896.
Last year winners were France’s Albert Fert and Germany’s Peter Gruenberg for work on the discovery of giant magnetoresistance
The Nobel Foundation was established in 1900 and the prizes were first handed out the following year.
