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Hideki Yukawa

1907 - 1981

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hideki Yukawa is the 168th most popular physicist (down from 135th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Japan (up from 67th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Physicist.

Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist who is most famous for his theory of mesons. He also predicted the existence of quarks.

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Among physicists, Hideki Yukawa ranks 168 out of 851. Before him are Hippolyte Fizeau, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Georges Charpak, Gerd Binnig, Ernst Abbe, and Paul Langevin. After him are François Englert, George E. Smith, Polykarp Kusch, Edmond Becquerel, Martinus J. G. Veltman, and Leon Cooper.

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Among people born in 1907, Hideki Yukawa ranks 25. Before him are Laurence Olivier, Frank Whittle, Bhagat Singh, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Yang Shangkun. After him are Daniel Bovet, Robert A. Heinlein, Sister Lúcia, François Duvalier, Lin Biao, and Fred Zinnemann. Among people deceased in 1981, Hideki Yukawa ranks 13. Before him are Bill Haley, Frederica of Hanover, Claude Auchinleck, Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, and Odd Hassel. After him are William Wyler, Harold Urey, Béla Guttmann, William Holden, Marcel Breuer, and Max Delbrück.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideki Yukawa ranks 56 out of 6,245. Before him are Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Takeda Shingen (1521), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Emperor Ninkō (1800), Emperor Kōkaku (1771), and Olivia de Havilland (1916). After him are Takashi Kasahara (1918), Emperor Suizei (-669), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Kane Tanaka (1903), and Paulo Miki (1564).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Hideki Yukawa ranks 1. After him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), and Takaaki Kajita (1959).

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