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'''Yoichiro Nambu''' (1921–2015) was a Japanese-American theoretical physicist whose work forged the bridge between [[Condensed Matter Physics|condensed matter physics]] and particle physics. In 1960, Nambu showed that [[Superconductivity|superconductivity]] could be understood as a spontaneously broken gauge symmetry, adapting the Landau-Ginzburg theory of [[Phase Transition|phase transitions]] to the quantum vacuum. This insight — that the same mathematics describing Cooper pairs in metals could describe the origin of particle masses — was the conceptual seed from which the [[Higgs Mechanism|Higgs mechanism]] grew. Nambu shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics, a discovery that revealed the deep structural unity between the smallest and largest scales of physical organization.

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