biography
pronunciation:
[yukahwa]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907–81)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Tokyo, Japan. He studied at Kyoto University, where he became a lecturer (1929–33), before moving to Osaka (1933–9). Professor of physics at Kyoto University (1939–50) and director of Kyoto Research Institute (1953–70), he was visiting professor at Princeton and Columbia universities (1948–53). He predicted (1935) the existence of the meson, a particle hundreds of times heavier than the electron, developed a theory of strong nuclear forces, and for his work on quantum theory and nuclear physics was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1949, the first Japanese to be so honoured. |
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