Nationality Japan
Institution Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Award 2008
Discipline Physics
Co-recipients Yoichiro Nambu, Toshihide Maskawa
MotivationAwarded with Nobel Prize 2008 in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
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