Yukawa

American  

[yoo-kah-wah] / yuˈkɑ wɑ /

noun

1. Hideki 1907–81, Japanese physicist: Nobel Prize 1949.

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Yukawa British  

/ juːˈkɑːwə /

noun

1. Hideki (ˈhiːdɛkɪ). 1907–81, Japanese nuclear physicist, who predicted (1935) the existence of mesons: Nobel prize for physics 1949

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Yukawa Scientific  

/ yo̅o̅-kä′wä /

1. Japanese physicist who in 1935 mathematically predicted the existence of the meson, for which he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

At her first fitting with the full prosthetic, Yukawa evaluated Radhika’s height and the length of the prosthetic as she tried it out.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2019

Kenji Goto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kenji Goto travelled to Syria in a bid to secure the release of his countryman Haruna Yukawa.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2015

No such particles were known at the time Yukawa made his bold proposal.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Yukawa was interested in the strong nuclear force in particular and found an ingenious way to explain its short range.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Their existence had been predicted in 1934 by Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, who speculated that they carried the force that binds the atomic nucleus together, counteracting the mutual electromagnetic repulsion of its positively charged protons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik