Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 goes to a Japanese-American and two Japanese for their work exploring the hidden symmetries among elementary particles that are the deepest constituents of nature.
Yoichiro Nambu, born in 1921, of the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute, will receive half of the 10 million krona prize (about $1.4 million) awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Makoto Kobayashi, born in 1944, of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tsukuba, Japan, will receive a quarter of the prize.
Toshihide Maskawa, born in 1940, of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University, will also receive a quarter of the prize.
(These photos are from http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/)