PHYSICIST

Yoichiro Nambu

1921 - 2015

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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 for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery in 1960 of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, related at first to the strong interaction's chiral symmetry and later to the electroweak interaction and Higgs mechanism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoichiro Nambu has received more than 426,444 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Yoichiro Nambu is the 213th most popular physicist (up from 251st in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Japan (up from 185th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Physicist.

Yoichiro Nambu is most famous for his work on the theory of spontaneous broken symmetry.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yoichiro Nambu ranks 213 out of 851. Before him are Robert Hofstadter, Richard E. Taylor, James Cronin, David J. Thouless, David Lee, and Arthur Ashkin. After him are Abdus Salam, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Leon Cooper, Clifford Shull, Chien-Shiung Wu, and Norman Foster Ramsey Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Yoichiro Nambu ranks 38. Before him are John Glenn, Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Marija Gimbutas, and Lotfi A. Zadeh. After him are Akio Morita, Edgar Morin, Alida Valli, Aaron T. Beck, Kurt Knispel, and Dobrica Ćosić. Among people deceased in 2015, Yoichiro Nambu ranks 38. Before him are Eduardo Galeano, Maya Plisetskaya, Manoel de Oliveira, Oliver Sacks, Douglass North, and Boris Nemtsov. After him are Alcides Ghiggia, Wes Craven, Yevgeny Primakov, Günter Schabowski, Colleen McCullough, and James Last.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoichiro Nambu ranks 119 out of 6,245. Before him are Tarō Asō (1940), Emperor Nakamikado (1702), Emperor Nintoku (290), Emperor Reigen (1654), Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571), and Chiune Sugihara (1900). After him are Emperor Kōan (-427), Akio Morita (1921), Empress Kōjun (1903), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Emperor Higashiyama (1675), and Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Yoichiro Nambu ranks 4. Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Hideki Yukawa (1907), and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906). After him are Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Yoshio Nishina (1890), and Hiroshi Amano (1960).

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