Being a physicist turned teacher, I'm happy to see these guys get this.
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Great work, Chris!
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Here's a twist, Bloomberg says it's 2 Japanese and 1 American that share the prize, the latter being Yoichiro Nambu.
And for those interested, they won the prize "for showing how subatomic particles that are supposed to act similarly sometimes don't, leading to a better explanation of how the universe was formed and helping to identify new particles." I'm not sure why the Mainichi article left that bit out, since I thought it was quite important!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aB2sWZJZI3QU&refer=japan
Thanks for the link, Nick. Unfortunately, for most people, the concept of broken symmetries is too boring to give serious thought. But, I would encourage anyone with even a passing interest in particle physics to check out in more detail what their work has meant. Of course, these guys have likely been out of their league for years, but that's often the way things work with the Nobel prize.
The news here is eating this up; I hope it will inspire more kids here to get into theoretical science, not just robotics and engineering. I think Japan could contribute a lot to theoretical physics if there's a large focus in that field.
A mathematician friend of mine always thought a great way to advertise pure math would be:
"Pure Math - never see another number again!!"
Science is so important and with the way that the current US administration has undermined science there is plenty of room at the top for non-Americans!