Japanese duo, US scientist win Nobel for particle physics

October 7th, 2008 in Physics / General Physics
Toshihide Maskawa is a professor emeritus at the Yukawa institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University


The Nobel Assembly announces the winners of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for Physics in Stockholm. Japan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States have won the prize for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles.

Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles.


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