Yu·ka·wa (y -kä wä), Hideki 1907-1981. Japanese physicist. He won a 1949 Nobel Prize for mathematically predicting the existence of the meson. |
Yukawa [juːˈkɑːwə]
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(Biographies / Yukawa, Hideki (1907-1981) M, Japanese, SCIENCE: physicist) Hideki (ˈhiːdɛkɪ). 1907-81, Japanese nuclear physicist, who predicted (1935) the existence of mesons: Nobel prize for physics 1949
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| Noun | 1. |  Yukawa - Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981) |
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