Hideki Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa

Junior Second Rank
Hideki Yukawa; Junior Second Rank
湯川秀樹
	Yukawa in 1951
Born	23 January 1907; Tokyo, Japan
Died	8 September 1981 (aged 74); Kyoto, Japan
Citizenship	Japan
Alma mater	Kyoto Imperial University; Osaka Imperial University
Spouse	Sumi Yukawa
Children	2
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1949); ForMemRS (1963); Lomonosov Gold Medal (1964);
	Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Osaka Imperial University; Kyoto Imperial University; Imperial University of Tokyo; Institute for Advanced Study; Columbia University
Academic advisors	Kajuro Tamaki
Doctoral students	Kazumi Maki; Mendel Sachs; Donald R. Yennie
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Hideki Yukawa ForMemRS FRSE (湯川秀樹, Yukawa Hideki, 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion.

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