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Wed 10 Oct 2008Three share Nobel Prize for discoveries in subatomic physics
Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in subatomic particles, it was announced yesterday.
The Nobel committee honoured Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born American citizen, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa from Japan for separate work which dealt with so-called spontaneous broken symmetries.
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