Japanese scientists win physics Nobel

Three Japanese scientists - Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa – have shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics. Nambu will get half of the prize (5 million Swedish crowns) for discoveries in the field of subatomic physics. The other half will be shared by Kobayashi and Maskawa for discoveries in the field of quark physics.

“Interfax”