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2008年10月08日 10時17分11秒 | 新聞記事から
ノーベル賞 日本の3氏 南部氏、小林・益川氏 物理学賞 素粒子理論に貢献 日本人6年ぶり 物質の根源に迫る

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences made an announment on Ocober 7 that it will award three Japanese people Nobel Prize in Physics this year. They include Yoichiro Nanbu,a professor emeritus at U.S. Chicago University;Makoto Kobayashi,a professor emeritus at High Energy Accelerator Research Institute;and Toshihide Masukawa,a professor emeritus at Kyoto University.They contributed to the development of elementary particle theory.Japanese people's receiving the nobel prize is the first in 6 years. All these three people made a significant contribution in the field by looking into the principles of subsatnce and illuminating several key problems.