2008年诺贝尔物理学奖

Yoichiro Nambu
(1/2 of the prize)
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA

"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"



Makoto Kobayashi
(1/4 of the prize)
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) Tsukuba, Japan

Toshihide Maskawa
(1/4 of the prize)
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan

"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/