2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu (file photo taken in Kyoto in 2005) is among three recipients of the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics, the Swedish prize organizer said on Oct. 7. Nambu got the prize ''for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.''

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