The Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981) was one of the world's most highly-respected theoretical physicists. His most visible contributions to science were in the field of particle physics.Hi...
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Hideki Yukawa was the first citizen of Japan to receive a Nobel Prize, an award given to him in 1949 for his theory of the meson, the subatomic particle that binds the nucleus' protons and neutrons. I...
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The discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick in 1932 resolved an important problem in atomic physics: the discrepancy between atomic weight and atomic number. But it raised a new problem. If the nuc...
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Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa