The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 with one half toYOICHIRO NAMBUEnrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA“for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”and the other half jointly toMAKOTO KOBAYASHIHigh Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, JapanandTOSHIHIDE MASKAWAYukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan“for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three