(Heigo the twelfth lunar month, the tenth day of this seventh month), January 23, 1907, Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa's birthday.



Hideki Yukawa (1907 to 1981), Japanese physicist.
Born in Tokyo in 1907. In 1929, graduated from the Department of Physics, Kyoto University. 1933 to 1939 in Osaka University teaching and research in nuclear and quantum field theory. In 1935, the meson theory, elementary particle interactions title papers published meson field. Predicted that as nuclear forces and beta decay media existence of new particles that meson, also raised the nuclear force field equations and the potential of the nuclear force, that the expression of the Yukawa potential. Doctorate in Osaka Imperial University in 1938. 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics Hideki Yukawa, in recognition of his theory on the basis of the nuclear force predicted the existence of mesons. (Lsjt.net) he is a Nobel Prize-winning Japanese. From 1949 to 1951, he was appointed professor at Columbia University. From 1953 to 1970, he served as the first director of the Institute of Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University. Participate in the World Peace Movement Conference in 1957, calling for a peaceful use of atomic energy. After 1975, the long-term illness, died in Kyoto on September 8, 1981.