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Yoichiro Nambu

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Yoichiro Nambu (18 January 1921 to 5 July 2015) was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1921 1
Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1921-01-18 1
Death DateSourced to the subject's own account
2015-07-05 1
Death YearSourced to the subject's own account
2015 1
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Additional Source Yoichiro Nambu (Wikipedia)String theory section (edge: proposed-by, Nambu)
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1. Yoichiro Nambu (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead section (entity-description)
    Yoichiro Nambu (18 January 1921-5 July 2015) was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.
  • Infobox (birth-date)
    Born: 18 January 1921
  • Infobox (birth-year)
    Born: 18 January 1921
  • Infobox (death-date)
    Died: 5 July 2015
  • Infobox (death-year)
    Died: 5 July 2015
  • Proposed: String Theory, String theory section (edge: proposed-by, Nambu)
    In the early 1970s, Nambu independently discovered that the dual resonance model, originally introduced to describe hadronic scattering amplitudes, could be reinterpreted as a theory of quantized relativistic strings.
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