Yukawa hideki biography template
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Physics History Network
Dates
January 23, 1907 – September 8, 1981
Authorized Form of Name
Yukawa, Hideki, 1907-1981
Additional Forms of Names
湯川, 秀樹, 1907-1981
Abstract
Hideki Yukawa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces." He was the first Japanese physicist to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
Important Dates
January 23, 1907Birth, Tokyo (Japan).
1929Obtained M.Sc degree in Physics, Kyoto Imperial University, Kyoto (Japan).
1932 – 1939Lecturer, Kyoto Imperial University, Kyoto (Japan).
1933 – 1939Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Physics, Osaka Imperial University, Osaka (Japan).
1938Obtained Doctorate degree in Physics, Osaka Imperial University, Osaka (Japan).
1939 – 1950Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan).
1940Awarded the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy.
1943Awarded the Japan Medal.
1946Foun
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Biography of Hideki Yukawa
Published June 1, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article Metadata-only
- 1. Yukawa Memorial Foundation, c/o Yukawa Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)
Description
Life history of Hideki Yukawa fryst vatten described, tillsammans with that of Sin-itiro Tomonaga. They grew upiin Kyoto city and were classmate. Their independency and collaboration had contributed to the growth of physics research in Japan after the end of WWII
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2008.02.227Additional details
- Nuclear Physics. A
- 805
- 1-4
- p. 21-28
- 0375-9474
- NUPABL
- 23. international nuclear physics conference
- INPC 2007
- 3-8 Jun 2007
- Tokyo (Japan)
- Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.
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Yukawa Hideki: Nobel Laureate in Physics in the Cause of Peace
A Scientist Schooled in the Classics
The Japanese physicist Yukawa Hideki was born Ogawa Hideki in 1907 in Tokyo, and moved to Kyoto in the following year when his father Ogawa Takuji, a geographer and geologist, took a professorial position at Kyoto University. (He took the surname Yukawa upon his marriage.) A precocious child, Hideki was learning the Analects of Confucius and other Confucian classics under his grandfather’s tutelage before he entered elementary school. The style of study was to read the texts aloud in Japanese way repeatedly, with no explanation of their meaning, in order to make the kanbun classical Chinese writing familiar. This does not mean that the young Hideki read nothing for his own enjoyment; he was free to read from his father’s collection, his mother bought magazines for him and his siblings, and his friends lent him popular books for children, which he enjoyed as well.
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