Hideki Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa
Junior Second Rank
湯川 秀樹
Yukawa in 1951
Born(1907-01-23)23 January 1907
Tokyo, Japan
Died8 September 1981(1981-09-08) (aged 74)
Kyoto, Japan
CitizenshipJapan
Alma materKyoto Imperial University
Osaka Imperial University
SpouseSumi Yukawa
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsOsaka Imperial University
Kyoto Imperial University
Imperial University of Tokyo
Institute for Advanced Study
Columbia University
Academic advisorsKajuro Tamaki
Doctoral studentsKazumi Maki
Mendel Sachs
Donald R. Yennie
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Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion.

  1. ^ Kemmer, N. (1983). "Hideki Yukawa. 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 29: 660–676. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1983.0023. JSTOR 769816.