Yoichiro Nambu

Awards

1. 1985

   Max Planck Medal

   Physics

   Spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics.

2. 1994/1995

   Wolf Prize — Physics

   Physics

   for his contribution to elementary particle theory, including recognition of the role played by spontaneous symmetry-breaking in analogy with superconductivity theory, and the discovery of the color symmetry of the strong interactions.

3. 2008

   Nobel Prize — Physics

   Physics

   for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics