Prof. Dr. Makoto Kobayashi

Nationality Japan

Institution Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago

Award 2008

Discipline Physics

Co-recipients Yoichiro Nambu, Toshihide Maskawa

Motivation "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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