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Q155777
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Q155777 refers to Hideki Yukawa, a Japanese theoretical physicist who lived from 1907 to 1981 and made groundbreaking contributions to nuclear physics. He matters because he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 for his prediction of the meson, a fundamental particle that helps explain the forces holding atomic nuclei together.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1949
“for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces”
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Empire of Japan
- Place of birth
- Azabu
- Place of death
- Kyoto
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Osaka
- Employer
- University of Osaka
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Award
- Pour le Mérite
- Notable work
- Yukawa interaction
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Yukawa.jpg
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in kana
- ゆかわ ひでき
- Commons category
- Hideki Yukawa
- date of birth
- 1907-01-23
- date of death
- 1981-09-08
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- Hideki Yukawa
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- influenced by
- Enrico Fermi
- name in native language
- 湯川 秀樹
- significant person
- Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- place of burial
- Chion-in Temple
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
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."
Early life and education
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