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Oct 7, 2008 06:45 AM | 1
Three men who study broken symmetry -- the phenomenon that "conceals nature’s order under an apparently jumbled surface," according to the Nobel Foundation -- have won the Nobel Prize in Physics: High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan; and Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Broken symmetry has become an important underpinning of particle physics. You can read more about Kobayashi and Maskawa's work here.
Check back with SciAm.com later for more detailed coverage. In the meantime, read our In-Depth Report on the Nobels.
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1 Comments
Add CommentThats just unbelievable. You have three slots, two of them going to Kobayashi and Maskawa, and you don't give the third to Cabbibo?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis just in from the Nobel Prize committee: apparently Cabbio's mother is so fat she has her own zip code.