The Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2008 has been awarded to three lifetime contributors in Physics by the Nobel Foundation. Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa will share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Yoichiro Nambu is from USA whereas Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa are from Japan.

This year, three contributors in Medicine or Physiology are announced as Nobel Prize winners by the Nobel Foundation. Harald zur Hausen from Germany, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier from France will share this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine.