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American, Japanese scientists share 2008 Nobel Prize in physics
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-10-07 21:21

Japanese scientist Makoto Kobayashi speaks during a news conference in Tokyo October 7, 2008. Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles, the prize committee said on Tuesday. The Nobel committee lauded Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born American citizen, and Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan for separate work that helped explain why the universe is made up mostly of matter and not anti-matter via processes known as broken symmetries. [Agencies]