Three World Scientific Authors Win 2008 Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 has been awarded to Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics", with one-half of the Prize awarded to Yoichiro Nambu and the other awarded jointly to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa.
Professor Nambu is one of World Scientific's distinguished authors, having written a book entitled, "QUARKS: Frontiers in Elementary Particle Physics" and whose selected papers are published in another book, "BROKEN SYMMETRY: Selected Papers of Y Nambu", both published by World Scientific some years ago.
After a 50-year career as a physics professor at the University of Chicago, Japan-born Prof Nambu is now Henry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at its Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute. Prof Nambu, a Japan-born American physicist, is currently a professor at the University of Chicago.
Professor Makoto Kobayashi , a Japanese physicist well-known for his work on CP-violation, was on the panel of editors for the book, "A GARDEN OF QUANTA: Essays in Honor of Hiroshi Ezawa" published by our company.
In Chemistry, three researchers who worked on a fluorescent protein found in jellyfish and developed it into a standard laboratory tool have been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize. Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien, all of the U.S., were awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering green fluorescent protein and related marine photoproteins, and for developing them into highly useful tools for chemical, biological, and medical analysis. The original discovery of green fluorescent protein was reported by Osamu Shimomura.
Professor Shimomura is also a distinguished author with World Scientific, having written a book "BIOLUMINESCENCE: Chemical Principles and Methods" which was published by our company.
Prof Shimomura is currently Professor Emeritus at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts and Boston University.
