STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. and Japanese scientists earned the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on subatomic particle theory, Sweden's Nobel Foundation announced Tuesday.
Yoichiro Nambu of the Enrico Fermi Institute at University of Chicago was selected for "the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a news release issued by the Nobel Foundation.