Prémio Nobel da Física 2008

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

Yoichiro Nambu (USA)

1/2 of the prize






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

Makoto Kobayashi (Japan)

1/4 of the prize





Toshihide Maskawa (Japan)

1/4 of the prize