Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008, announced October 7, 2008. Yoichiro Nambu (1/2), “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”. Makoto Kobayashi (1/4), “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”. Toshihide Maskawa (1/4), “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”. Yoichiro Nambu: born 1921, Tokyo, Japan. Makoto Kobayashi: born 1944, Nagoya, Japan. Toshihide Maskawa: born 1940, Nagoya, Japan. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).