Japanese physicist Yukawa Hideki won the 1949 Nobel Prize in physics. Based on his research into quantum mechanics and the fields of force affecting elementary particles, he theoretically deduced the existence of mesons, a family of subatomic particles composed of quarks and antiquarks and having intermediate mass.
Yukawa Hideki(1907-81), Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate, noted for his study of nuclear forces.
Yukawa was born in Tokyo and was educated at the universities of Kyoto and Osaka. He became a lecturer in physics at Kyoto University in 1932 and was made professor in 1939. Yukawa also taught (1933-36) at Osaka University and was assistant professor there until 1939. He was visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1948 and at Columbia University from 1949 to 1953. Yukawa became (1950) professor emeritus at Osaka University and was named (1953) director of the Research Institute for Fundamental Physics at Kyoto University. Yukawa did extensive research in quantum mechanics (see Quantum Theory) and the fields of force affecting elementary nuclear particles. In 1935 he theoretically deduced the existence of the meson (see Elementary Particles), for which he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in physics.
Yukawa was born in Tokyo and was educated at the universities of Kyoto and Osaka. He became a lecturer in physics at Kyoto University in 1932 and was made professor in 1939. Yukawa also taught (1933-36) at Osaka University and was assistant professor there until 1939. He was visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1948 and at Columbia University from 1949 to 1953. Yukawa became (1950) professor emeritus at Osaka University and was named (1953) director of the Research Institute for Fundamental Physics at Kyoto University. Yukawa did extensive research in quantum mechanics (see Quantum Theory) and the fields of force affecting elementary nuclear particles. In 1935 he theoretically deduced the existence of the meson (see Elementary Particles), for which he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in physics.
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