Yoichiro Nambu, professor emeritus at Osaka City University wins Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008

Prof. Yoichiro Nambu, professor emeritus at Osaka City University was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”.

Prof. Nambu served as an Associate Professor at Graduate school / Faculty of Science and Engineering (Department of Physics) in 1949, when Osaka City University was founded. He became Professor in March 1950 and laid the foundation of the department. Osaka City University conferred the title professor emeritus upon Prof. Namubu in 1978.

Osaka City University is very proud of his achievement and we feel honored if our university’s free and vigorous educational research environment contributed to his award‐winning research.

Taking this advantage, we will further enhance opportunities for creative education and research based on our internationally recognized academic quality and outstanding human resources.