'Broken Symmetry' at subatomic level

                                                      Nobel Prize in Physics (2008)

• "Yoichiro Nambu" [Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago] for the discovery of the  mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics  

• "Makoto Kobayashi" [Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)] and 

• "Toshihide Maskawa" [Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP) at Kyoto University] for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.

Courtesy: ScienceDaily (Oct. 7, 2008)