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In this article I try to explain, in as non-mathematical a manner as possible, the path-breaking contributions of Yoichiro Nambu who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008. It can easily be said that the three pillars of modern high energy physics are: The Electroweak Theory, Quantum Chromodynamics and String Theory. Nambu made fundamental contributions in all these areas.
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N D Hari Dass is currently Raja Ramanna Fellow at the Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc and also the Honorary Director of Poornaprajna Institute at Bangalore. In 2004 he built the then India’s fastest academic teraflop supercomputer KABRU. His main research interests are Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Field Theory and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. One of his passions is science communication with students at all levels.
I have taken this term of reverence from Madhusree Mukerjee’s excellent profile of Nambu that appeared in the February 1995 issue of Scientific American. I urge all readers of Resonance to read this not only to know about Nambu the scientist, but also about Nambu the human being. I have also, inevitably, used other parts of this profile in preparing my own article.
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Haridass, N.D. Yoichiro Nambu: Seer of modern physics. Reson 14, 568–595 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-009-0065-x
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