What is Yoichiro Nambu?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Yoichiro Nambu<br />南部 陽一郎 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|01|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2015|07|05|1921|01|18}} | death_place = [[Osaka]], Japan | nationality = Japan | citizenship = Japan; United States (1970-death) | image = YoichiroNambu.jpg | field = [[Physics]] | alma_mater = [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo Imperial University]] | work_institution = [[University of Tokyo]] (1942–49)<br>[[Osaka City University]] (1949–52)<br>[[Institute for Advanced Study]] (1952–54)<br>[[University of Chicago]] (1954–) | known_for = [[Spontaneous symmetry breaking]] | prizes = {{no wrap|[[Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics|Heineman Prize]] (1970)<br>[[List of National Medal of Science laureates#Physical Sciences|US National Medal of Science]] (1982)<br />[[Dirac Medal]] (1986)<br />[[Sakurai Prize|J.J. Sakurai Prize]] (1994)<br />[[Wolf Prize|Wolf Prize in Physics]] (1994/1995)<br />[[Pomeranchuk Prize]] (2007)<br>[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (2008)}} }} {{nobelprize|Physics}} {{nihongo|'''Yoichiro Nambu'''|南部 陽一郎|Nanbu Yōichirō| 18 January 1921 – 5 July 2015}} was a [[Japanese people|Japanese]]-born [[Americans|American]] [[physicist]], a professor at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>{{cite news | title = 2008年ノーベル物理学賞受賞の南部陽一郎 大阪大学特別栄誉教授がご逝去されました | publisher = Osaka University | date = 17 July 2015 | url = http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/news/topics/2015/07/20150717_01 | access-date = 17 July 2015}}</ref> ==Works== Nambu was known for his works to the field of [[theoretical physics]], he was awarded a one-half share of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 2008 for the discovery in 1960 of the mechanism of [[Spontaneous symmetry breaking|spontaneous broken symmetry]] in [[subatomic]] physics, related at first to the [[strong interaction]]'s [[chiral symmetry]] and later to the [[electroweak interaction]] and [[Higgs mechanism]].