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2 unusual facts about Hideki Yukawa


Ernst Stueckelberg

It was rediscovered by Hideki Yukawa, who won a Nobel Prize for his work in 1949 - the first of several Nobel Prizes awarded for work which Stueckelberg contributed to, without recognition.

Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981), FRSE (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki?, 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) né Ogawa (小川?), was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate


Children's Peace Monument

Beneath the main structure lies a bronze crane that works as a wind chime when pushed against a traditional peace bell from which it is suspended, the two pieces having been donated by Nobel Laureate in Physics Hideki Yukawa.

Oldstone Conference

There were 24 participants; new participants were Robert Christie, Freeman Dyson (whose writings explained Feynman’s ideas), George Placzek, and Hideki Yukawa.


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