Yoichiro Nambu

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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.^[1]

Known for his contributions to the field of

In 1952, he was invited by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, to study. He moved to the University of Chicago in 1954 and was promoted to professor in 1958.^[4] From 1974 to 1977 he was also Chairman of the Department of Physics.^[5] He became a United States citizen in 1970.^[6]

Career in physics

Nambu proposed the "color charge" of quantum chromodynamics,^[7] having done early work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics,^[8] and having discovered that the dual resonance model could be explained as a quantum mechanical theory of strings.^[9][10] He was accounted as one of the founders of string theory.^[11]

After more than fifty years as a professor, he was Henry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service

Nambu died on 5 July 2015 at the age of 94 in Osaka due to a heart attack.^[16][17] His funeral and memorial services were held among close relatives.^[16]

Recognition

Nambu won numerous honors and awards including the Dannie Heineman Prize (1970), the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1977),^[18][19] Japan's

See also

• List of Japanese Nobel laureates
• List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Tokyo
• Nambu, Yoichiro (1985) Quarks, World Scientific, Singapore

References

External links

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• Oral history interview with Yoichiro Nambu on 16 July 2004, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• Yoichiro Nambu, Department of Physics faculty profile, University of Chicago
• Profile, Scientific American Magazine
• Yoichiro Nambu, Sc.D. Biographical Information
• Nambu's most-cited scientific papers
• Yoichiro Nambu's earliest book for the scientific layman Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
• Yoichiro Nambu's previously unpublished material, including an original article on spontaneously broken symmetry
• "A History of Nobel Physicists from Wartime Japan" Article published in the December 1998 issue of Scientific American, co-authored by Laurie Brown and Yoichiro Nambu
• Tribute upon Prof. Nambu passing by former student Dr. Madhusree Mukerjee
• Guide to the Yoichiro Nambu Papers 1917-2009 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
• Yoichiro Nambu on Nobelprize.org