Yukawa

[ yoo-kah-wah ]

noun
  1. Hi·de·ki [hee-de-kee], /ˈhi dɛ ki/, 1907–81, Japanese physicist: Nobel Prize 1949.

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British Dictionary definitions for Yukawa

Yukawa

/ (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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Scientific definitions for Yukawa

Yukawa

[ yōō-kä ]


  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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