This text contains selected papers of the particle theorist, Professor Nambu. It comprises about 40 papers which made fundamental contributions to our understanding of particle physics during the last few decades. The unpublished lecture note on string theory (1969) and the first paper on spontaneous symmetry breaking (1961) are retyped and included. The book also contains a memoir of Professor Nambu on his research career.
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The book benefits from the inclusion of previously unpublished material, informal lectures and conference-summary talks that are not widely available. These, together with the selected research papers, provide an excellent scientific biography of Nambu and of the Japanese physics tradition, which he describes in several places ... it is in the less formal presentations that the motivation for Nambu's ideas, as well as his charming modesty, become evident and make reading this collection the pleasure that it is. --Physics Today
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In the citation of Nobel physics prize committee, Nambu's unpublished paper presented at Mid West Conference at Purdue University in 1960 is referred to as the original article on spontaneously broken symmetry. This is the paper which we have decided to include in the volume `Broken Symmetry' because of its historical importance. The paper would have been inaccessible and may not have been noticed by the general public if it were not retyped and included in the volume.
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This review is from: Broken Symmetry: Selected Papers of Y. Nambu (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics) (Hardcover)
This volume is a collection of papers by one of the greatest theoretical physicsts you've probably never heard of (unless you yourself are a theoretical physicist). His fingerprints are on most of the major theoretical developments of the past half century, from spontaneous symmetry breaking to QCD to string theory. This collection features difficult to find papers, some unpublished, which had a profound impact. In an age so infused with vacuous hype, it is inspirational to review the work of such an original yet self-effacing thinker.
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- Atomic Energy: The Story of Nuclear Science by Irene D. Jaworski on page 91, page 127, and page 165
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