The Nobel Prize in Physics 1949
Awarded on: 1949-11-03
"for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
- Kyoto University – Kyoto, Japan
Hideki Yukawa
Born: 1907-01-23 in Tokyo, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese theoretical physicist (1907–1981)
Biography
Hideki Yukawa 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".