American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

任教芝加哥大学的美国科学家南部阳一郎因为发现次原子物理的对称性自发破缺机制而获一半奖金。

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American scientist Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of the mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

任教芝加哥大学的美国科学家南部阳一郎因为发现次原子物理的对称性自发破缺机制而获一半奖金。

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Economics professor Takenaka Heizo of Keio University praises Nambu for his vision and insight - and his down-to-earth style.

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Dr Nambu, who was at the University of Chicago, provided the mathematical foundations for understanding the spontaneous breaking of symmetries in fundamental physics.

ECONOMIST: The 2008 Nobel science prizes