QFS2016 Book of Abstracts

Abstracts

THURSDAY 11 AUGUST

Yoichiro Nambu Session Chair: John Saunders

(18.1.1921-5.7.2015)

Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-born American physicist, and a professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery in 1960 of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics related to the strong interaction’s chiral symmetry, the electroweak interaction and the Higgs mechanism.

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