Hideki Yukawa

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Hideki Yukawa was a renowned Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese to be awarded the Nobel Prize

Jan 23, 1907

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: January 23, 1907
  • Died on: September 8, 1981
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Famous: Scientists, Physicists
  • Spouses: Sumi Yukawa
  • Childrens: Harumi, Takaaki
  • Universities:
    • Kyoto University
    • University of Paris

Hideki Yukawa born at

Tokyo

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Birth Place

In 1932, he married Sumi Yukawa and took her family name. They had two sons, Harumi and Takaaki.

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Personal Life

In 1953, Japan honored him by making him the director of the newly established Research Institute for Fundamental Physics at Kyoto University.

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Hideki was appointed as the chairman of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in the year 1953.

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Personal Life

Hideki Yukawa was born Hideki Ogawa on 23 January1907 in Tokyo, Japan. His father’s name was Takuji Ogawa and he belonged to the Samurai clan. Yukawa was raised in Kyoto, Japan into a family of academicians. His father was a professor of Geology at the Kyoto University. This drew Yukawa’s attention to the field of Science.

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Childhood & Early Life

Though he was born in Tokyo, he received his formal education in Kyoto and he considered it his home. In the year 1923, Yukawa was enrolled in the Third High School in Kyoto. Another renowned physicist Sin-itiro Tomonaga also studied in the same school and was a batch mate of Yukawa.

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Childhood & Early Life

After his schooling, Yukawa went to study at the Kyoto Imperial University (now Kyoto University) and in the year 1926 received his graduate degree.

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Childhood & Early Life

Upon graduating from the Kyoto University in 1929, Hideki stayed back to pursue teaching. He was appointed as a lecturer and taught for four years. This was the beginning of his brilliant career in academic research and teaching.

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Career

In 1933, Hideki Yukawa at the age of 23 became an assistant professor at Osaka University in Japan, which further fuelled his academic research and interests.

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Career

During the year 1948-49, Hideki was appointed as a visiting professor in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. In 1949 he was appointed as a professor of Physics at the Columbia University, USA.

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Career

In the year 1935, he published a paper “On the Interaction of Elementary Particles. I." (Proc. Phys.-Math. Soc. Japan, 17, p. 48). In this paper, he proposed a new field theory of nuclear forces.

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Major Works

In this theory, he proposed the theory of a strong and weak nuclear force. He showed a new type of particle as their carrier particle. This was called the U-quantum which was later renamed meson because it had the mass between electron and proton.

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Major Works

This theory established him as the founder of the Meson theory and it became a major influence on nuclear and high-energy physics.

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Major Works

From the year 1947, Yukawa dedicated his life to the study of the theory of elementary particles which was based on his idea of “non-local field”.

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Major Works

During his long years of research, Yukawa also worked on the theory of K-Capture. In this theory, a low energy electron is absorbed by the nucleus.

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Major Works