One half went to Yoichiro Nambu for discovering the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics. One quarter each went to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for explaining broken symmetry through a mechanism requiring at least three families of quarks.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official 2008 summary: Nambu one half; Kobayashi and Maskawa one quarter each, with the two distinct symmetry-breaking contributions specified.
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