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

After Radhika’s leg healed, they worked with Peter Yukawa, a certified prosthetist orthotist at Children’s, to build her a prosthetic.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2019

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 • Nov. 13, 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

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