2008 Nobel Prize in Physics

Universities have a notorious habit of trying to inflate their count of Nobel laureates by taking credit for everyone who was ever affiliated with their university in any capacity whatsoever.  But occasionally they get lucky and one of the current faculty gets the prize.  Such is the case for the 2008 prize in physics, whose largest share goes to Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago.  The prize was awarded for the discovery of spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics.  He is the first American to win any share of a Nobel prize so far this year.