Score!
Posted by Jay Manifold on October 7th, 2008 (All posts by Jay Manifold)
Yahoo! News/AP: “American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.”
- announcement
- press release
- scientific background
- information for the public/populärvetenskaplig information/a møøse once bit my sister
- Yoichiro Nambu’s page at the UofC’s “Experts Guide”
We are great and we are grand … we make bombs beneath our stands!
UPDATE: UofC news office release.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I can’t imagine how he did that, considering how insular the United States is. Maybe we are insular only in literature.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Fortunately, the Nobel committees for the prizes other than Literature and Peace are not in thrall to political correctness.
October 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Hah, I just broke out “a møøse once bit my sister” recently..
Jim, I have it on good authority that he did tests solely on American matter, so don’t lose hope.