nLab Yoichiro Nambu

On his contributions to string theory:

Selected writings

Introducing discussion of what came to be called the Nambu-Goto action for strings (then motivated as explanation for the “dual resonance model” for hadrons, cf. Polyakov gauge-string duality):

Prediction of the omega-meson:

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