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Hideki Yukawa ForMemRS FRSE (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki, 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion.
Born: 23 January 1907, Tokyo, Japan. Died: 8 September 1981, Kyoto, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Prize motivation: “for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces”. Prize share: 1/1.
Yukawa Hideki (born January 23, 1907, Tokyo, Japan—died September 8, 1981, Kyōto) was a Japanese physicist and recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physics for research on the theory of elementary particles.
Biographical. Hideki Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on 23rd January, 1907, the third son of Takuji Ogawa, who later became Professor of Geology at Kyoto University. The future Laureate was brought up in Kyoto and graduated from the local university in 1929.
May 23, 2018 · The Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981) was one of the world's most highly-respected theoretical physicists. His most visible contributions to science were in the field of particle physics. Hideki Yukawa was born in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 1907.
From 1933 to 1939, Hideki Yukawa was a lecturer and assistant professor at the School of Science, Osaka Imperial University. During this period, he proposed the meson theory, and then later received the Nobel Prize in physics for his achievement, the meson theory.
Oct 5, 2021 · Yukawa Hideki became Japan’s first Nobel laureate in physics in 1949. A few years earlier, he struggled between his drive to pursue basic research and the Japanese authorities’...
