nLab Yoichiro Nambu

• Wikipedia entry

• obituary by Madhusree Mukerjee

• Interview with Yoichiro Nambu by Babak Ashrafi, July 2004

• Christopher T. Hill, A personal recollection of Yoichiro Nambu, Section VI in: Nambu and Compositeness [arXiv:2401.08716]

On his contributions to string theory:

• Hiroshi Itoyama, Birth of String Theory, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 2016 6 (2016) 06A103 [arXiv:1604.03701, doi:10.1093/ptep/ptw063]

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):

• Yoichiro Nambu, Duality and Hadrodynamics, Notes prepared for the Copenhagen High Energy Symposium (1970) [doi:10.1142/9789812795823_0026, pdf]

Prediction of the omega-meson:

• Yoichiro Nambu, Possible Existence of a Heavy Neutral Meson, Phys. Rev. 106, 1366 (1957) (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.106.1366)

Related $n$Lab entries

• Nambu-Goto action

• Nambu bracket, Nambu mechanics