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Yukawa Hideki (湯川 秀樹,
January 23,
1907 -
September 8,
1981) was a
Japanese
theoretical physicist and the first Japanese who won the Nobel prize.
He was born in
Tokyo, on
January 23,
1907. In
1929, he became a lecturer at
Kyoto Imperial University in his 22 after graduated from there. Since
graduation, he had been doing research about
theoretical physics, particularly in the theory of
elementary particle. In
1932, he got married with Sumiko and had two sons, Harumi and Takaaki.
In
1933 he became a professor and an assistant professor at
Osaka University in his 26. In
1935 he published
Theory of Meson, which explained the relationship between protons and
neutrons and largely influenced the research of elementary particles. In
1940 he became a professor in
Kyoto University. In
1940 he won the
Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, in
1943
Decoration of Cultural Merit from
Japanese government. In
1949 he became a professor at
Columbia University. In
1949 he won Nobel prize for physics. In
1953 he became the first chairman at
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
[1] An honorary doctorate of the
University of Paris and honorary memberships of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh, the
Indian Academy of Sciences, the
International Academy of Philosophy and Sciences, and the
Pontificia Academia Scientiarum are granted to him for acknowledgement
in
science.
He had been an editor at
Progress of Theoretical Physics since
1946. He had published many scientific papers and lecture notes,
including
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (1946)
and
Introduction to the Theory of Elementary Particles (1948),
both in Japanese.
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