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Japanese-American nobel-winning physicist

Yoichiro Nambu 南部陽一郎
Nambu in 2005
Born	(1921-01-18)18 January 1921 Tokyo, Empire of Japan (Now Japan)
Died	5 July 2015(2015-07-05) (aged 94) Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
Citizenship	American (from 1970)
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University
Known for	Spontaneous symmetry breaking String theory Nambu–Goto action Nambu-Goldstone boson Nambu mechanics Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model
Spouse	Chieko Hida
Children	John Nambu (son)
Awards	Heineman Prize (1970) J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1976) Order of Culture of Japan (1978) US National Medal of Science (1982) Max Planck Medal (1985) Dirac Medal (1986) J.J. Sakurai Prize (1994) Wolf Prize in Physics (1994/1995) Franklin Medal (2005) Pomeranchuk Prize (2007) Nobel Prize in Physics (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	IJA Research Institute of Technology (IJA 4th Research Institute of Aeronautical Technology) (1943–45) University of Tokyo (1945–49) Osaka City University (1949–52) Institute for Advanced Study (1952–54) University of Chicago (1954– 2015)

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Yoichiro Nambu (南部陽一郎, Nanbu Yōichirō, 18 January 1921 – 5 July 2015) was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.

Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded half of the Nobel 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.

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."

Early life and education

Nambu was born on 18 January 1921 in Tokyo, Empire of Japan (Now Japan). After graduating from the then-Fukui Secondary High School in Fukui City, he enrolled in the Imperial University of Tokyo (Now University of Tokyo) and studied physics. He was a lieutenant (technical lieutenant 技術中尉) in the Imperial Japanese Army.

He received his Bachelor of Science in 1942 and Doctorate of Science in 1952. In 1949, he was appointed to associate professor at Osaka City University and promoted to professorship the next year at the age of 29.

In 1952, Nambu was invited by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, to study. He moved to the University of Chicago in 1954 and was promoted to professor in 1958. From 1974 to 1977, Nambu was also served as the Chairman of the Department of Physics, and then he became as an American citizen from 1970 until his death in 2015.

Career in physics

Nambu (white shirt) and associates in 1996

Nambu proposed the "color charge" of quantum chromodynamics, having done early work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics, and having discovered that the dual resonance model could be explained as a quantum mechanical theory of strings. He was accounted as one of the founders of string theory.

After more than fifty years as a professor, he was Henry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago's Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute.

The Nambu–Goto action in string theory is named after Nambu and Tetsuo Goto. Also, massless bosons arising in field theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking are sometimes referred to as Nambu–Goldstone bosons.

Death

Nambu died of heart failure at the hospital in Osaka on 5 July 2015, at the age of 94. The announcement of his death was delayed until 17 July, just 12 days after his death. His funeral and memorial services were held among close relatives.

Nambu was survived by his wife, Chieko, and his son, John.

Recognition

The Nambu Hall was opened on the second floor of Osaka University Graduate School of Science, J Building in 2017.

The Osaka Metropolitan University Nambu Yoichiro Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (NITEP) was founded on November 1, 2018.

Nambu won numerous honors and awards including:

1970: Dannie Heineman Prize
1977: J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize
1978: Order of Culture, Japan
1978: Person of Cultural Merit, Japan
1979: Honorary Citizen of Fukui City, Japan
1982: National Medal of Science
1985: Max Planck Medal, Germany
1986: Dirac Prize
1994: Sakurai Prize
1994/1995: Wolf Prize in Physics
2003: Fukui Prefectural Award, Japan
2005: Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
2005: Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture
2008: Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics".
2011: Honorary Citizen of Toyonaka City

References

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^ Hatsuda, Tetsuo. "Notable Alumni: Yoichiro Nambu". University of Tokyo. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
Chicago Tribune (October 8, 2008) "University of Chicago physicist Yoichiro Nambu wins Nobel Prize"
Matt Moore; Karl Ritter; Mari Yamaguchi & Herbert G. McCann (7 October 2008). "Chicago Professor Shares Nobel Prize In Physics". NPR. Associated Press.
Serway, Raymond; Moses, Clement; Moyer, Curt (2004). "Elementary Particles". Modern Physics (3rd ed.). Thomson Learning. p. 577. ISBN 1111794375. Retrieved 19 July 2015 – via Google Books.
Xing, Zhizhong; Shun Zhou (2011). "Neutrinos within the Standard Model". Neutrinos in Particle Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology. Zhejiang University Press. p. 23. ISBN 9783642175602. Retrieved 19 July 2015 – via Google Books.
Nambu, Y. (1970). "Quark model and the factorization of the Veneziano amplitude." In R. Chand (ed.), Symmetries and quark models (pp. 269–277). Singapore: World Scientific.
Pesic, Peter (2014). "Unheard Harmonies". Music and the Making of Modern Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. ISBN 9780262027274. Retrieved 19 July 2015 – via Google Books.
Jones, Andrew Zimmerman; Robbins, Daniel (2010). "Ten Notable String Theorists". String Theory for Dummies. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Publishing. p. 347. ISBN 9780470595848. Retrieved 19 July 2015 – via Google Books.
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Narins, Brigham (2001). Notable Scientists from 1900 to the Present: N-S. Gale Group. p. 1613. ISBN 9780787617554.
Nambu, Y.; Jona-Lasinio, G. (1 April 1961). "Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. I". Physical Review. 122 (1). American Physical Society (APS): 345–358. Bibcode:1961PhRv..122..345N. doi:10.1103/physrev.122.345. ISSN 0031-899X.
Nambu, Y.; Jona-Lasinio, G. (1 October 1961). "Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. II". Physical Review. 124 (1). American Physical Society (APS): 246–254. Bibcode:1961PhRv..124..246N. doi:10.1103/physrev.124.246. ISSN 0031-899X.
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1980s	1982 Philip W. Anderson Yoichiro Nambu Edward Teller Charles H. Townes 1983 E. Margaret Burbidge Maurice Goldhaber Helmut Landsberg Walter Munk Frederick Reines Bruno B. Rossi J. Robert Schrieffer 1986 Solomon J. Buchsbaum H. Richard Crane Herman Feshbach Robert Hofstadter Chen-Ning Yang 1987 Philip Abelson Walter Elsasser Paul C. Lauterbur George Pake James A. Van Allen 1988 D. Allan Bromley Paul Ching-Wu Chu Walter Kohn Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. Jack Steinberger 1989 Arnold O. Beckman Eugene Parker Robert Sharp Henry Stommel
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v t e Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Physics
1970s	Chien-Shiung Wu (1978) George Uhlenbeck / Giuseppe Occhialini (1979)
1980s	Michael Fisher / Leo Kadanoff / Kenneth G. Wilson (1980) Freeman Dyson / Gerardus 't Hooft / Victor Weisskopf (1981) Leon M. Lederman / Martin Lewis Perl (1982) Erwin Hahn / Peter Hirsch / Theodore Maiman (1983–84) Conyers Herring / Philippe Nozières (1984–85) Mitchell Feigenbaum / Albert J. Libchaber (1986) Herbert Friedman / Bruno Rossi / Riccardo Giacconi (1987) Roger Penrose / Stephen Hawking (1988)
1990s	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes / David J. Thouless (1990) Maurice Goldhaber / Valentine Telegdi (1991) Joseph H. Taylor Jr. (1992) Benoît Mandelbrot (1993) Vitaly Ginzburg / Yoichiro Nambu (1994–95) John Wheeler (1996–97) Yakir Aharonov / Michael Berry (1998) Dan Shechtman (1999)
2000s	Raymond Davis Jr. / Masatoshi Koshiba (2000) Bertrand Halperin / Anthony Leggett (2002–03) Robert Brout / François Englert / Peter Higgs (2004) Daniel Kleppner (2005) Albert Fert / Peter Grünberg (2006–07)
2010s	John F. Clauser / Alain Aspect / Anton Zeilinger (2010) Maximilian Haider / Harald Rose / Knut Urban (2011) Jacob Bekenstein (2012) Peter Zoller / Juan Ignacio Cirac (2013) James D. Bjorken / Robert P. Kirshner (2015) Yoseph Imry (2016) Michel Mayor / Didier Queloz (2017) Charles H. Bennett / Gilles Brassard (2018)
2020s	Rafi Bistritzer / Pablo Jarillo-Herrero / Allan H. MacDonald (2020) Giorgio Parisi (2021) Anne L'Huillier / Paul Corkum / Ferenc Krausz (2022) Martin Rees (2024)
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v t e 2008 Nobel Prize laureates
Chemistry	Osamu Shimomura (Japan/United States) Martin Chalfie (United States) Roger Y. Tsien (United States)
Literature (2008)	J. M. G. Le Clézio (France)
Peace	Martti Ahtisaari (Finland)
Physics	Makoto Kobayashi (Japan) Toshihide Maskawa (Japan) Yoichiro Nambu (United States/Japan)
Physiology or Medicine	Harald zur Hausen (Germany) Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (France) Luc Montagnier (France)
Economic Sciences	Paul Krugman (United States)
Nobel Prize recipients 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

v t e Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics
1901–1925	1901: Röntgen 1902: Lorentz / Zeeman 1903: Becquerel / P. Curie / M. Curie 1904: Rayleigh 1905: Lenard 1906: J. J. Thomson 1907: Michelson 1908: Lippmann 1909: Marconi / Braun 1910: Van der Waals 1911: Wien 1912: Dalén 1913: Kamerlingh Onnes 1914: Laue 1915: W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg 1916 1917: Barkla 1918: Planck 1919: Stark 1920: Guillaume 1921: Einstein 1922: N. Bohr 1923: Millikan 1924: M. Siegbahn 1925: Franck / Hertz
1926–1950	1926: Perrin 1927: Compton / C. Wilson 1928: O. Richardson 1929: De Broglie 1930: Raman 1931 1932: Heisenberg 1933: Schrödinger / Dirac 1934 1935: Chadwick 1936: Hess / C. D. Anderson 1937: Davisson / G. P. Thomson 1938: Fermi 1939: Lawrence 1940 1941 1942 1943: Stern 1944: Rabi 1945: Pauli 1946: Bridgman 1947: Appleton 1948: Blackett 1949: Yukawa 1950: Powell
1951–1975	1951: Cockcroft / Walton 1952: Bloch / Purcell 1953: Zernike 1954: Born / Bothe 1955: Lamb / Kusch 1956: Shockley / Bardeen / Brattain 1957: C. N. Yang / T. D. Lee 1958: Cherenkov / Frank / Tamm 1959: Segrè / Chamberlain 1960: Glaser 1961: Hofstadter / Mössbauer 1962: Landau 1963: Wigner / Goeppert Mayer / Jensen 1964: Townes / Basov / Prokhorov 1965: Tomonaga / Schwinger / Feynman 1966: Kastler 1967: Bethe 1968: Alvarez 1969: Gell-Mann 1970: Alfvén / Néel 1971: Gabor 1972: Bardeen / Cooper / Schrieffer 1973: Esaki / Giaever / Josephson 1974: Ryle / Hewish 1975: A. Bohr / Mottelson / Rainwater
1976–2000	1976: Richter / Ting 1977: P. W. Anderson / Mott / Van Vleck 1978: Kapitsa / Penzias / R. Wilson 1979: Glashow / Salam / Weinberg 1980: Cronin / Fitch 1981: Bloembergen / Schawlow / K. Siegbahn 1982: K. Wilson 1983: Chandrasekhar / Fowler 1984: Rubbia / Van der Meer 1985: von Klitzing 1986: Ruska / Binnig / Rohrer 1987: Bednorz / Müller 1988: Lederman / Schwartz / Steinberger 1989: Ramsey / Dehmelt / Paul 1990: Friedman / Kendall / R. Taylor 1991: de Gennes 1992: Charpak 1993: Hulse / J. Taylor 1994: Brockhouse / Shull 1995: Perl / Reines 1996: D. Lee / Osheroff / R. Richardson 1997: Chu / Cohen-Tannoudji / Phillips 1998: Laughlin / Störmer / Tsui 1999: 't Hooft / Veltman 2000: Alferov / Kroemer / Kilby
2001– present	2001: Cornell / Ketterle / Wieman 2002: Davis / Koshiba / Giacconi 2003: Abrikosov / Ginzburg / Leggett 2004: Gross / Politzer / Wilczek 2005: Glauber / Hall / Hänsch 2006: Mather / Smoot 2007: Fert / Grünberg 2008: Nambu / Kobayashi / Maskawa 2009: Kao / Boyle / Smith 2010: Geim / Novoselov 2011: Perlmutter / Schmidt / Riess 2012: Wineland / Haroche 2013: Englert / Higgs 2014: Akasaki / Amano / Nakamura 2015: Kajita / McDonald 2016: Thouless / Haldane / Kosterlitz 2017: Weiss / Barish / Thorne 2018: Ashkin / Mourou / Strickland 2019: Peebles / Mayor / Queloz 2020: Penrose / Genzel / Ghez 2021: Parisi / Hasselmann / Manabe 2022: Aspect / Clauser / Zeilinger 2023: Agostini / Krausz / L'Huillier 2024: Hopfield / Hinton

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