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Who shared the Nobel Prize with Yoichiro Nambu in 2008?

  • Shinichiro Tomonaga

  • Hideki Yukawa

  • Makoto Kobayashi

  • Kenichi Fukui

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Makoto Kobayashi shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Yoichiro Nambu in 2008 for their groundbreaking work on Theory of spontaneous symmetry breaking. This theory explains how fundamental forces and particles acquire their masses and properties. Kobayashi's contributions focused on the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle that plays a crucial role in the symmetry-breaking process.
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