U.S. scientist, two in Japan share Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel goes to Yoichiro Nambu of Chicago and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan, who made strides in the study of a phenomenon called broken symmetry. A Japanese American theorist whose work helped explain how the cosmos came into being and two Japanese theorists who predicted the existence of a family of exotic particles called quarks will share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, the Swedish Nobel Foundation announced Tuesday.

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