Hideki yukawa biography of williams

(b. Tokyo, Japan, 23 January 1907; d. Kyoto, Japan, 8 September 1981)

physics.

Hideki Yukawa, incentor of the meson theory of nuclear forces, was the fifth of seven children born to Takuji and Koyuki Ogawa.

Both parents came from scholarly families of the samurai tradition. At the time of Hideki’s birth, Takuji Ogawa was a geologist on the staff of the Geological Survey Bureau in Tokyo. In 1908 he became professor of geography at Kyoto Imperial University, and Hideki received all of his formal education in Kyoto, which he regarded as his home.

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The Ogawa children were strongly influenced by their father’s broad cultural interests, which extended well beyond his scientific profession. Four sons became university professors: of metallurgy, of Chinese history, of Chinese literature, and (Hideki) of physics.

The youngest son Masuki, died in World War II.

In 1923 Yukawa enrolled at the Third High School in kyoto. The future physicist Sin-itiro Tomonaga was his cl