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Q155777

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Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)

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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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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."

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