Science (1982), the Max Planck Medal (1985), the Dirac Prize (1986), the Sakurai Prize (1994), the Wolf Prize in Physics (1994/1995), and the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medal (2005). He was awarded one-half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics". See also List of Japanese Nobel laureates List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Tokyo References External links Oral history interview with Yoichiro Nambu on 16 July 2004, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives Yoichiro Nambu, Department of Physics faculty profile, University of Chicago Profile, Scientific American Magazine Yoichiro Nambu, Sc.D. Biographical Information Nambu's most-cited scientific papers Yoichiro Nambu's earliest book for the scientific layman Yoichiro Nambu's previously unpublished material, including an original article on spontaneously broken symmetry "A History of Nobel Physicists from Wartime Japan" Article published in the December 1998 issue of Scientific American, co-authored by Laurie Brown and Yoichiro Nambu Tribute upon Prof. Nambu passing by former student Dr. Madhusree Mukerjee Guide to the Yoichiro Nambu Papers 1917-2009 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center 1921 births 2015 deaths American physicists National Medal of Science laureates People from Fukui Prefecture American string theorists Wolf Prize in Physics laureates Academic staff of the University of Tokyo University of Chicago faculty University of Tokyo alumni Japanese emigrants to the United States American academics of Japanese descent Nobel laureates in Physics American Nobel laureates Recipients of the Order of Culture Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients Winners of the Max Planck Medal