2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

Wednesday 08th October, 03:28 AM JST

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kjunluc2 at 12:55 AM JST - 8th October

I'm so happy about this discovery. I've wondered for years why my right big toe is bigger than my left. Ahhhh so; spontaneous disruption of symmetri!

Kudos to Japan!
tclh at 03:58 AM JST - 8th October

Congratulations to Japan.And if anyone can destroy Japanese suicide culture to stop Japanese killing themselves,that person deserves to win a Nobel prize too.
thepro at 08:42 AM JST - 8th October

haha the news I watched didn't say anything about the guy actually being American.
Spidey at 09:09 AM JST - 8th October

haha the news I watched didn't say anything about the guy actually being American.

Heaven forbid!

"It's mine, mine, all mine!!

Societal insecurity at its finest.

S
ProfessorJ at 09:17 AM JST - 8th October

haha the news I watched didn't say anything about the guy actually being American.

I don't know, everyone is so busy in Japan, maybe they didn't have enough time to mention it. I'm sure they wouldn't intentionally omit details to cast themselves in a better light, would they? I've heard the Japanese are an honest people and have some kind of honour code.
malfupete at 09:18 AM JST - 8th October

Don't bother with the news agencies in this country.. everything is so lopsided. This morning there was some press conference about that Judo guy who won the gold at the olympics and he wants to do K-1 now or something. His press conference was that he was "still thinking about the future"

what a friggin joke.
Maff at 09:23 AM JST - 8th October

One point that should be mentioned is that Nambu completed the work for which he was awarded the prize in the 1960s, but only became in American citizen in 1970. H therefore earned the prize as a Japanese, though will receive it as an American. So perhaps the U.S. media outlets claiming that the prize was won by an American are the ones at fault.
DanielM at 09:26 AM JST - 8th October

oh no....now we gonna see those guys in the news for the next two years:(
ProfessorJ at 09:47 AM JST - 8th October

So perhaps the U.S. media outlets claiming that the prize was won by an American are the ones at fault.

How is that possible? When did he win the prize? And his citizenship is...?

Banzai! Let's overlook that detail and cerebrate three, count em, one, two, three! local boys that have won the Nobel Prize for...something! Don't discuss what they won it for in much depth, let's talk about, well how great 127 million people are in this small island! Everybody is trying so hard. But how's the inefficiency. This guy takes 30 years for his research to be recognised. It's about time a Nobel Prize was inaugurated for inefficiency. That way, the Japanese could win it every year! Banzai!
Athletes at 10:08 AM JST - 8th October

Congratulation to three professors for their discovery. Today is a proud moment for the descendants of the Sun Goddess. I thin she may smile on the heaven.
timtak at 10:27 AM JST - 8th October

Why these Nobel prizes at the same time?

It is almost as if the Nobel committee are bundling Japanese people together, when perhaps had then not been descendents of the Sun Goddess, they might have deserved two Nobel prizes (one for Nambu one for Kobayashi and Masakawa).
borscht at 11:58 AM JST - 8th October

I wonder if Prof. Nambu could have done his research in Japan at that time (50s). Were there university facilities in Japan capable of hosting his research? In any case, congratulations to the three for their hard work and the Nobel.
VoXman at 01:38 PM JST - 8th October

Actually it is a big deal. Japan very rarely wins Nobel prizes for science. Google it and find out.
keshii at 05:11 PM JST - 8th October

My favorite part of this very short article might be the fact that one quote was repeated only two paragraphs later, and with different capitalization, too.

“Spontaneous broken symmetry conceals nature’s order under an apparently jumbled surface. It has proved to be extremely useful, and Nambu’s theories permeate the Standard Model of elementary particle physics.”

Too bad the second quote didn't clarify things any further than the first time I read it!
ProfessorJ at 08:30 PM JST - 8th October

My favorite part of this very short article might be the fact that one quote was repeated only two paragraphs later, and with different capitalization, too.

keshii well done, I think you're the first person to read a JT article in its entirety before posting! You win the JT prize! It's not a Nobel prize though and is kind of worthless, but then so is time spent here.