From the good folks at APS…

The American Physical Society congratulates Prof. Y. Nambu, Prof. M. Kobayashi and Prof. T. Maskawa on winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics. We are pleased to announce that three of Professor Nambu’s articles describing work honored by his Nobel Prize have been made “Free- to- Read” so they can be downloaded without a subscription.

Links to the articles follow:

http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v4/i7/p380_1

http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v122/i1/p345_1

http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v124/i1/p246_1

We are honored to have published these seminal works that helped to elucidate the crucial role of spontaneously broken symmetry in our current understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter.

Sincerely,
Gene D. Sprouse, Editor in Chief, American Physical SocietyJoseph W. Serene, Treasurer/Publisher, American Physical Society

What can I say? It’s Friday afternoon and these folks always lighten up the day or sends one into a depression to rival the economic one we’re hurling towards.

My question: These papers get published? Who were the peer reviewers?

Check out this year’s winners:

http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2008