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Hideki Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa

January 23, 1907 –September 8, 1981

Physicist, Theoretical physicist, Nuclear physicist, University teacher

Lived 74 years

Born in
Azabu
Passed away in
Kyoto

Hideki Yukawa (Japanese: 湯川 秀樹; né Ogawa; 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces."

Notable works: pion, Yukawa potential, Yukawa interaction Awards: Imperial Prize of Japan Academy, Order of Culture, Nobel Prize in Physics, Person of Cultural Merit, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris, Lomonosov Gold Medal, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order Education: Kyoto University, University of Osaka

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Yukawa