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Kobayashi

In Kobayashi Makoto
…discovery of the origin of broken symmetry, which created at least six quarks moments after the big bang.
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Maskawa

In Maskawa Toshihide
…discovery of the origin of broken symmetry, which created at least six quarks moments after the big bang.
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Nambu

In Yoichiro Nambu
…for his discovery of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, which explained why matter is much more common in the cosmos than antimatter. That theoretical research, which was mostly carried out in the 1950s, also helped earn him a share of Israel’s Wolf Prize in physics (1994/95).
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