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    Yoichiro Nambu (南部 陽一郎, Nanbu Yōichirō, 18 January 1921 – 5 July 2015) was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. Known...
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  • Hamiltonian over a Poisson manifold. In 1973, Yoichiro Nambu suggested a generalization involving Nambu–Poisson manifolds with more than one Hamiltonian...
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  • it travels through spacetime. It is named after Japanese physicists Yoichiro Nambu and Tetsuo Goto. The basic principle of Lagrangian mechanics, the principle...
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  • spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries. They were discovered by Yoichiro Nambu in particle physics within the context of the BCS superconductivity...
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  • 1968), Japanese cyclist Kenzo Nambu (born 1992), Japanese footballer Kijirō Nambu (1869–1949), Japanese gunmaker Yoichiro Nambu (1921–2015), Japanese American...
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  • The basic idea was introduced to particle physics by Yoichiro Nambu, in particular, in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model, which is a solvable theory of composite...
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    1950s on symmetry breaking in superconductivity and a 1960 paper by Yoichiro Nambu that discussed its application within particle physics. A theory able...
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  • moving backward in time in his 1949 paper "The Theory of Positrons". Yoichiro Nambu later applied it to all production and annihilation of particle-antiparticle...
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    concerning spontaneous symmetry breaking, and the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model is named after him. When Yoichiro Nambu received the Nobel Prize, Jona-Lasinio gave...
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    of the quarks, and making pseudoscalar mesons exceptionally light. Yoichiro Nambu was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for elucidating the phenomenon...
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  • inventor of the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model, Yoichiro Nambu, also contributed essentially to the theory of superconductivity, i.e., by the "Nambu formalism"....
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    actor Yoichiro Murakami (村上 陽一郎) (born 1936), Japanese philosopher Yoichiro Nambu (南部 陽一郎) (1921–2015), Japanese-born American physicist Yoichiro Takahashi...
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    create a comprehensive theory for particle physics. In the late 1950s, Yoichiro Nambu recognised that spontaneous symmetry breaking, a process where a symmetric...
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  • November 22, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green...
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  • physicist. He was a professor of physics at Duke University. Along with Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago, he is credited with introducing the SU(3)...
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    proposed by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964, Moo-Young Han and Yoichiro Nambu introduced a hidden internal degree of freedom in which quark wave functions...
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  • with masses related to spins in a way that was later understood by Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen and Leonard Susskind to be the relationship expected...
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  • all the same electron" with a complex, self-intersecting world line. Yoichiro Nambu later applied it to all production and annihilation of particle-antiparticle...
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  • Yoichiro Nambu (2008). Karl Grandin (ed.). Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2008. Stockholm: The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 22 May 2012. "Yoichiro Nambu...
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    massless theories was put forward, initially by Jeffrey Goldstone, Yoichiro Nambu, and Giovanni Jona-Lasinio. This prompted a significant restart of Yang–Mills...
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  • 2008 Toshihide Maskawa, Physics, 2008 Makoto Kobayashi, Physics, 2008 Yoichiro Nambu*, Physics, 2008 Koichi Tanaka, Chemistry, 2002 Masatoshi Koshiba, Physics...
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  • Bibcode:1991PhT....44b.111.. doi:10.1063/1.2810004. "Wolf Prizes go to Ginzburg, Nambu and Moser". Physics Today. 48 (1): 66. 1995. Bibcode:1995PhT....48Q..66...
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    three scientists for their work in subatomic physics symmetry breaking. Yoichiro Nambu, of the University of Chicago, won half of the prize for the discovery...
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    Japanese-born theorist and Nobel Prize laureate Yoichiro Nambu from the University of Chicago. Nambu had proposed a theory known as spontaneous symmetry...
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    Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his methods of synthesizing crown ethers. Yoichiro Nambu won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum chromodynamics...
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    2001 – Ryoji Noyori, Chemistry 2002 – Koichi Tanaka, Chemistry 2008 – Yoichiro Nambu, Physics 2008 – Makoto Kobayashi, Physics 2008 – Toshihide Maskawa,...
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    Joseph E. Mayer, chemist Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel laureate in physics Yoichiro Nambu, Nobel laureate in physics Marcel Schein, cosmic ray physicist John...
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    Advanced Study. Susskind was one of at least three physicists, alongside Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, who independently discovered during or around...
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    Koshiba Kiichiro Toyoda Kunihiko Kodaira Yoshinori Ohsumi Namihei Odaira Yoichiro Nambu Teiji Takagi Yoshisuke Ayukawa Nine Nobel-awarded scientists have earned...
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    all the same electron" with a complex, self-intersecting worldline. Yoichiro Nambu later applied it to all production and annihilation of particle-antiparticle...
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