Yoichiro Nambu (1921–) is a Japanese-born Americanphysicist. He was an early developer (in the 1960s) of the theory of Quantum chromodynamics, and of the Higgs boson. Nambu became a professor of physics at Osaka City University in 1950. He is now a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ... Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the strong interaction, a fundamental force describing the interactions of the quarks and gluons found in nucleons (such as the proton and neutron). ... The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. ... Osaka City University (å¤§é˜ªå¸‚ç«‹å¤§å¦ ÅŒsaka Shiritsu Daigaku, in southern Osaka sometimes abbreviated to 市大 Ichidai or Shidai) is one of the municipal universities in Japan. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... The University of Chicago is a private university principally located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1890 and opened in 1892. ...
YoichiroNambu, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute and one of the leading figures in the development of modern particle physics, has been awarded the 1994-95 Wolf Prize in physics.
Nambu was honored for his contributions to theoretical particle physics -- in particular, for the work he did to develop the concept of "spontaneous symmetry-breaking" in superconductivity and in the physics of fundamental particles.
Nambu was born in Tokyo in 1921 and received his B.S. in 1942 and his D.Sc.
Eight kinds of gluons are required to transmit the strong force between quarks, e.g., a blue quark might interact with a yellow quark by exchanging a blue-antiyellow gluon.
The concept of color was proposed by the American physicist Oscar Greenberg and independently by the Japanese physicistYoichiroNambu in 1964.
The theory was confirmed in 1979 when quarks were shown to emit gluons during studies of high-energy particle collisions at the German national laboratory in Hamburg.
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