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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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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."
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1907 births1981 deaths20th-century Japanese physicistsAcademic staff of Kyoto UniversityAcademic staff of Osaka UniversityAcademic staff of the University of TokyoBiography articles needing translation from Japanese WikipediaColumbia University facultyFellows of the American Physical SocietyFellows of the Royal Society of EdinburghForeign associates of the National Academy of Sciences