Hideki Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa
湯川秀樹
	Yukawa in 1949
Born	Hideki Ogawa; 23 January 1907; Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Died	8 September 1981 (aged 74); Kyoto, Japan
Alma mater	Kyoto Imperial University; Osaka Imperial University (PhD);
Known for	Theory of mesons
Spouse	Sumi Yukawa (m. 1932)
Children	2
Awards	Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (1940); Nobel Prize in Physics (1949); Lomonosov Gold Medal (1963);
	Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	Kyoto Imperial University; Osaka Imperial University; Research Institute for Fundamental Physics;
Academic advisors	Seishi Kikuchi; Yoshio Nishina;
Notable students	Hiroshi Enatsu; Kazumi Maki; Shoichi Sakata; Donald R. Yennie;
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Hideki Yukawa (Japanese: 湯川秀樹; né Ogawa; 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces."