Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobel 67
somegeekynick writes "The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been jointly awarded to Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago 'for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics,' and Makoto Kobayashi of the KEK lab and Toshihide Maskawa of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, both in Japan, 'for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.'"
Re:w00t (Score:3, Insightful)
How do you know they are "boys"? Japanese names are hard (for non-Japanese) to determine the gender just by reading them.
Sexist!
Re:Curious (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Curious (Score:4, Insightful)