Yukawa

Yu·ka·wa  (y-käwä), Hideki 1907-1981.

Japanese physicist. He won a 1949 Nobel Prize for mathematically predicting the existence of the meson.

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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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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) Hideki Yukawa