Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

Yoichiro Nambu – USA (1/2 of the prize)

(For the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics)

Makoto Kobayashi – Japan (1/4 of the prize)
Toshihide Maskawa – Japan (1/4 of the prize)

(For the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature)

Chemistry

Osamu Shimomura – USA (1/3 of the prize)
Martin Chalfie – USA (1/3 of the prize)
Roger Y. Tsien – USA (1/3 of the prize)

(For the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP)

Medicine or Physiology

Harald zur Hausen – Germany (1/2 of the prize)

(For his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer)

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi – France (1/4 of the prize)
Luc Montagnier – France (1/4 of the prize)

(For their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus)

Literature

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - France

(Author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization)

Peace

Martti Ahtisaari – Finland

(For his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts))

Economics

Paul Krugman – USA

(For his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity)

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