(CORRECTED)2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physic

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KYOTO, Japan, Oct. 7 Kyodo - Toshihide Masukawa, emeritus professor at Kyoto University, smiles during a press conference in Kyoto on Oct. 7 after he, along with Makoto Kobayashi and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 2008. Masukawa won ''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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