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Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.
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science · Japanese-American nobel-winning physicist · theoretical physicist · professor · physicist · researcher · also Yoichiro Nambu, Nambu Yoichiro, Nanbu Yoichiro, Yōichirō Nambu, Nambu Yōichirō, Yōichirō Nanbu
Born 18 January 1921 · Died 5 July 2015 · Q188120
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“He was always ten years ahead of us, so I tried to understand his work in order to contribute to a field that would flourish a decade later. But contrary to my expectation, it took me ten years just to understand what he had done.”
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The Daily Telegraph: Yoichiro Nambu, physicist - obituary
The Washington Post: Yoichiro Nambu, physicist who won Nobel Prize in 2008, dies at 94
The Boston Globe: Yoichiro Nambu, 94; Nobel laureate for ‘God particle’ path
The University of Chicago Chronicle: Yoichiro Nambu, Nobel-winning theoretical physicist, 1921-2015
Died 2015-07-05.
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Nambu returned to Japan and settled permanently in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture
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Nambu made a special appearance at a celebration held for Purdue University professor Ei-ichi Negishi, who had received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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The University of Chicago Chronicle: MEDIA ADVISORY: Nobel Prize presentation ceremony for Yoichiro Nambu
Scientific American: Stories by Yoichiro Nambu
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2008).
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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
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Although awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, Nambu did not travel to Stockholm to attend the award ceremony
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Awarded Pomeranchuk Prize (2007).
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Won Oskar Klein Medal (2005).
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Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2005).
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Received the first honorary doctorate awarded by Osaka University (UOsaka), and in 2006, he became a specially appointed professor there
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Awarded Sakurai Prize (1994).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1994).
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Yoichiro Nambu was appointed as a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University and an academic advisor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
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Won ICTP Dirac Medal (1986).
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Won Max Planck Medal (1985).
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Won National Medal of Science (1982).
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Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (1978).
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Awarded Order of Culture (1978).
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Awarded J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1976).
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Nambu proposed a generalization of Hamiltonian mechanics now known as Nambu mechanics
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Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1970).
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And remained one until his death in 2015
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Within a short interval, three works were published — a preprint by Nikolay Bogolyubov, Boris Struminsky, and Albert Tavkhelidze; a paper by Yoneji Miyamoto (宮本米二); and a paper by Moo-Young Han and Nambu
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Nambu provided a general mathematical proof of the Goldstone theorem
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Published “Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. II” in Physical Review — cited 2,232 times.
Nambu, in two papers co-authored with Italian physicist Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, proposed a theoretical model (now known as the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model), in which he attempted to explain the origin of nucleon mass through
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Published “Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. I” in Physical Review — cited 4,884 times.
Proposed the idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking (based on a formal analogy he observed between the Bogoliubov–Valatin equations, known in the BCS theory of superconductivity, and the Dirac equation), and also propo
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Predicted the existence of the vector omega meson, and derived a fundamental relation known as crossing symmetry, which became a key tool in analyzing particle interactions
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Nambu joined the University of Chicago and was promoted to full professor in 1958
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Was invited to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and moved to the United States
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Studied at University of Tokyo, Doctor of Science (1952).
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Independently proposed the concept of associative production of strange particles, explaining their appearance in high-energy collisions
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Nambu was appointed as an associate professor at Osaka City University (now Osaka Metropolitan University) and became a full professor the following year at the age of 29
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Nambu was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942
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The family of three returned to Fukui, where Kichiro took up a position as an English teacher at Fukui Girls' High School
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When Tokyo was devastated by the Great Kanto Earthquake, the Nambu family relocated to Fukui Prefecture, the hometown of his father
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Born 1921-01-18.
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The following year, in 1921, Yoichiro was born in Tokyo.
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