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Yoichiro Nambu
| Full Name of the recipient | Yoichiro Nambu |
|---|---|
| Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year of Award | 2008 |
| Share in Award | 50.0% |
| Award Shared with | Makoto Kobayashi (25.0%) Toshihide Maskawa (25.0%) |
| Motivation for the Award | for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics |
| Affiliation at the Time of Award | Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan JPN |
| Date of Birth | 18 January 1921 |
| Age at the time of Award | 86 years |
| Place of Death | Osaka, Japan JPN |
| Date of Death | 5 July 2015 |
