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The Nobel Prize in

Physics 2008

Prize Amount: 10,000,000 SEK

Laureates

Yoichiro Nambu

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

Makoto Kobayashi

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"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

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"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"