By Lars Brink (ed.)
World Scientific
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This volume is a collection of lectures delivered by the Nobel prizewinners in physics, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches by Nobel Committee members, for the years 2006–2010. The lectures provide detailed explanations of the phenomena for which the laureates were awarded the Nobel prize. The volume includes John Mather and George Smoot, honoured “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”, as well as Yoichiro Nambu “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry, which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”.
