Nanbu Yoichiro

Nambu Yoichiro (Japanese: South yoichiro/Nanbu Yoichiro, Romanized: Nambu Yōichirō (January 18, 1921 - July 5, 2015), a Japanese-American citizen born in Tokyo, Japan, is a world-renowned particle physicist. Before his death, he was an emeritus professor of the Department of Physics and the Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago, a special honorary professor of Osaka University, an emeritus professor of Osaka City University, and an academic advisor to Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. Yoichiro Nanbu is one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and one of the founders of string theory. He is universally known as the "prophet of physics." He has carried out many pioneering studies in the field of particle physics since the 1960s, including discovering the spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism in subatomic physics and proposing the Southern-Jonah-Racinho model. In addition, he also proposed the color charge specification of quantum chromodynamics and provided important suggestions for Peter Higgs in discovering the Higgs mechanism. For more than half a century, Southern has received nearly all of physics' highest honors, including the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.