Hideki Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa
湯川秀樹
	Yukawa in 1949
Born	Hideki Ogawa; 23 January 1907; Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Died	8 September 1981 (aged 74); Kyoto, Japan
Alma mater	Kyoto Imperial University (BA, 1929); Osaka Imperial University (PhD, 1938);
Known for	Postulating mesons (1935)
Office	Director of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
Term	1953–1970
Spouse	Sumi Yukawa (m. 1932)
Children	2
Awards	Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (1940); Nobel Prize in Physics (1949); ForMemRS (1963); Lomonosov Gold Medal (1963);
Honors	Order of Culture (1943); Pour le Mérite (1967); Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1977);
	Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	Kyoto Imperial University (1933–1949); Columbia University ; (1949–1953);
Doctoral students	Kazumi Maki (1964);
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Hideki Yukawa (Japanese: 湯川秀樹; né Ogawa; 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) 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".