Yukawa

American  

[yoo-kah-wah] / juˈkɑ 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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Yukawa

The work, carried out with collaborators at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Japan, Virginia Tech and other institutions, may help scientists identify the types of cosmic objects powerful enough to launch such particles.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026

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

Yukawa used the finite range of the strong nuclear force to estimate the mass of the pion; the shorter the range, the larger the mass of the carrier particle.

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