The 2009 TIME 100 Finalists

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers who deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100. — By Brian Raftery

Yochiro Nambu

yoichiro nambu

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AGE: 88
OCCUPATION: University of Chicago professor
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: He won a 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on the hidden (or "broken") symmetries that can exist within subatomic properties.

CON: There should also be a prize for whoever can explain what that sentence actually means.

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