Broken Symmetry: CP Violation
Summary
The Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 2008 was awarded to the trio of Dr. Yoichiro Nambu (USA), Dr. Makoto Kobayashi (Japan) and Dr. Toshihide Maskawa (Japan) for their contribution to the field of particle physics. The video profiles the three Nobel laureates. Dr. Toshihide Maskawa and Dr. Makoto Kobayashi helped decipher the phenomenon called CP violation in particle physics. Dr. Yoichiro Nambu, who heads the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, is responsible for the mathematical formulation that helped formulate the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking.
Keywords: Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa, particle physics, CP violation, Japan, proton, electron, neutron
