Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 14 laureates' work and discoveries range from quantum tunnelling to promoting democratic rights.

Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa received the prize for discovering the origin of CP violation (within the Glashow-Salam-Weinberg model) which has defended itself for 35 years as the proper …

The 2008 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.

We are honored to have published these seminal works that helped to elucidate the crucial role of spontaneously broken symmetry in our current understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter.

In this work, the notion of quantum emergence-submergence is coined as two opposite processes with bipolar energy/information conservation. The new notion leads to G-CPT symmetry supported by a …

Oct 7, 2008 · Physics Today: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 with one half to Yoichiro Nambu Enrico Fermi Institute, University of …

In a citation posted after the award was announced shortly before 5:30 a.m., the Nobel Foundation credited Nambu with “the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in …

The road to this discovery was mapped out by Yoichiro Nambu when, in 1960, he was the first to introduce spontaneous symmetry violation into elementary particle physics. It is for this discovery …

Why are there so many different elementary particles? This year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics have presented theoretical insights that give us a deeper understanding of what happens far inside the …

Sprouse, Gene D. (2009) Happenings and news in physics and astronomy: One year anniversary of American Physical Society's Physics News. The Physics Teacher, 47 (9). doi:10.1119/1.3264600