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

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 Literature

The 47-year-old, a veteran war correspondent, was captured in October 2014 after travelling to Syria to try to secure the release of Yukawa.

From The Guardian

They had met in Syria in the spring of 2014, when Yukawa passed through a camp of the Free Syrian Army, where Goto was reporting.

From The New Yorker

Goto told associates earlier that he wanted to travel to Syria to negotiate the release of Haruna Yukawa, a friend and would-be private military contractor who had been kidnapped in August.

From Time