Yoichiro Nambu wins nobel prize in physics (17 images)

University of Chicago professor Yoichiro Nambu (C) shakes hands with fellow professor Jonathan Rosner (R) as he sits with Simon Swordy, director of the Enrico Fermi Institute, and physics department chair Robert Wald after a news conference after winning the Nobel prize in physics on October 7, 2008 in Chicago. The Tokyo born American was awarded the prize for discovering a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics and shares the prize with Japanese physicists Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey)

University of Chicago professor Yoichiro Nambu speaks during a news conference after winning the Nobel Prize in physics on October 7, 2008 in Chicago. The Tokyo born American was awarded the prize for discovering a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics and shares the prize with Japanese physicists Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey)

University of Chicago professor Yoichiro Nambu walks to a news conference after winning the Nobel Prize in physics on October 7, 2008 in Chicago. The Tokyo born American was awarded the prize for discovering a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics and shares the prize with Japanese physicists Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey)

University of Chicago president Robert Zimmer (L) and provost Thomas Rosenbaum (C) greet professor Yoichiro Nambu as he arrives for a news conference after winning the Nobel prize in physics on October 7, 2008 in Chicago. The Tokyo born American was awarded the prize for discovering a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics and shares the prize with Japanese physicists Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey)