2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Kobayashi, emeritus professor at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, talks with Prime Minister Aso Taro by phone during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7. after being awarded the Nobel prize in physics for 2008 along with Toshihide Masukawa and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu. Kobayashi won 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.'' (Kyodo)

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