Hideki Yukawa By. Austin Irvine

Birth of Yukawa Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan in Yukawa grew up in an academically household which made him interested in science. He received a degree from Kyoto Imperial University. He was interested in theoretical physics.

He married Sumki and had two sons. In 1933 he became a assistant professor at Osaka University. In 1935 he explained his theory on measons. Which explained the interaction between protons and neutrons.

In 1940 he became a professor at Kyoto University. He also won the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy. In 1949 he won the Noble Prize in Physics. Yukawa became the first chairman of Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Yukawa also worked on the theory of K- capture. In which a low energy electron is absorbed by the nucleus. Yukawa published a lot of books including Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. He has edited a journal in English Progress of Theoretical Physics.

He has an honorary doctorate of the University of Paris. He also has a membership of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Yukawa immersed on the study of sub- atomic particle which he would research for the rest of his life.

In 1948 he was invited to spend a year at Princeton for advance studying. It was at Princeton where Yukawa met Albert Einstein. Yukawa said the results of physics are inevitably the problem in human society. Yukawa’s strong feelings on science’s duty to humanity began to crystallize.