Prof. Dr. Makoto Kobayashi

Nationality

Japan 

Institution

Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago 

Award

2008 

Discipline

Physics 

Co-recipients

Yoichiro Nambu and Toshihide Maskawa 

Motivation

"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."

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