2015---IN REMEMBRANCE....


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Theoretical physicist Yoichiro Nambu passed away July 5 at the age of 94. Nambu (and Jeffrey Goldstone, in separate work) explained the process of symmetry breaking in physics, a concept that was instrumental in the developments of Brout, Englert, and Higgs for the electroweak force that led to the prediction of the Higgs boson. Nambu won a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for this work. He was also a pioneer in quantum chromodynamics (the theory of the strong nuclear force) and string theory. He won pretty much all the major international prizes in theoretical physics (in addition to the Nobel). He was one of the great physicists of the 20th century.
 

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