Background
Nambu, Yoichiro was born on January 18, 1921 in Toyko. Arrived in the United States, 1952.
南部 陽一郎
Theoretical physicist university professor
Nambu, Yoichiro was born on January 18, 1921 in Toyko. Arrived in the United States, 1952.
After graduating from the then Fukui Secondary High School in Fukui City, he enrolled in the Imperial University of Tokyo and studied physics. He received his Bachelor of Science in 1942 and Doctorate of Science in 1952.
The other half was split equally between Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature." In 1949 he was appointed to associate professor at the Osaka City University and promoted to professorship the next year at the age of 29. In 1952, he was invited by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, to study. He moved to the University of Chicago in 1954 and was promoted to professor in 1958.
From 1974 to 1977 he was also Chairman of the Department of Physics.
He became a naturalized United States. citizen in 1970. Nambu proposed the "color charge" of quantum chromodynamics, having done early work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics, and having discovered that the dual resonance model could be explained as a quantum mechanical theory of strings.
He was accounted as one of the founders of string theory. After more than fifty years as a professor, he was Henry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago"s Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute.
The Nambu-Goto action in string theory is named after Nambu and Tetsuo Goto.
Also, massless bosons arising in field theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking are sometimes referred to as Nambu–Goldstone bosons. Nambu died on 5 July 2015 at the age of 94 in Osaka due to an acute myocardial infarction. His funeral and memorial services were held among close relatives.
Member of National Academy of Sciences, Georgian Academy Sciences (foreign fellow 1996), American Physical Society (Sakurai prize 1994, Dannie Heineman prize for Mathematics Physics 1970), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Japan Academy (honorary).
Married Chieko Hida Nambu, November 3, 1945. 1 child Jun-ichi.
