Two Japanese and 1 American win 2008 nobel in physics

Two Japanese, American win 2008 physics Nobel

• Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for their work in sub-atomic physics.
  

• The prize, awarded by the Nobel Committee for Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, was the second of this year's crop of Nobel prizes.
  

The committee recognized Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born US citizen, for his discovery of the mechanism of "spontaneous broken symmetry in sub-atomic physics."

The prizes are handed out annually for achievements in science, peace, literature and economics. The prizes bearing the name of Alfred Nobel were first awarded in 1901 in accordance with the 1895 will of the Swedish dynamite millionaire.