Overview

We have lost one of the giants of the twentieth century physics when Yoichiro Nambu passed away in July, 2015, at the age of 94.Today's Standard Model, though still incomplete in many respects, is the culmination of the most successful theory of the Universe to date, and it is built upon foundations provided by discoveries made by Nambu in the 1960s: the mechanism of spontaneously broken symmetry in Nature (with G Jona-Lasinio) and the hidden new SU(3) symmetry of quarks and gluons (with M-Y Han).In this volume honoring Nambu's memory, World Scientific Publishing presents a unique collection of papers written by his former colleagues, collaborating researchers and former students and associates, not only citing Nambu's great contributions in physics but also many personal and private reminiscences, some never told before. This volume also contains the very last scientific writing by Professor Nambu himself, discussing the development of particle physics.This book is a volume for all who benefited not only from Nambu's contributions toward understanding the Universe but also his warm and kind persona. It is a great addition to the history of contemporary physics.

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Author:   Lars Brink (Chalmers University Of Technology, Sweden) ,  Lay Nam Chang (Virginia Tech, Usa) ,  Moo-young Han (Korea Advanced Inst Of Science And Technology (Kaist), Korea & Duke Univ, Usa) ,  Kok Khoo Phua (Ntu, S'pore)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9789813108325

ISBN 10:   9813108320
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   14 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword; Profiles of Nambu (M Mukherjee); Lars Brink; Lay Nam Chang; Moo-Young Han; KK Phua; Effective Field Theory, Past and Future (Steven Weinberg); Yoichiro Nambu: Visionary Theorist Who Shaped Modern Particle Physics (Michael Turner); Yoichiro Nambu (Peter G O Freund, Jeffrey Harvey, Emil Martinec, Pierre Ramond); Remembering Nambu (Jorge Willemsen); Yoichiro Nambu (Louis Clavelli); Yoichiro Nambu: Remembering an Unusual Physicist, a Mentor and a Friend (Giovanni Jona-Lasinio); Pre-string Theory (Paul Frampton); Tom Kibble; Tohru Eguchi; Kazuo Fujikawa; Holger Bech-Nielsen; Appendix: Reminiscences of the Youthful Years of Particle Physics (Y Nambu);

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