Yukawa

[ yoo-kah-wah ]

noun

1. Hi·de·ki [hee, -de-kee], 1907–81, Japanese physicist: Nobel Prize 1949.

Yukawa

/ juːˈkɑːwə /

noun

1. YukawaHideki19071981MJapaneseSCIENCE: physicist Hideki (ˈhiːdɛkɪ). 1907–81, Japanese nuclear physicist, who predicted (1935) the existence of mesons: Nobel prize for physics 1949

Yukawa

/ yo̅o̅-kä′wä /

1. Japanese physicist who in 1935 mathematically predicted the existence of the meson, for which he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for physics.

Example Sentences

At her first fitting with the full prosthetic, Yukawa evaluated Radhika’s height and the length of the prosthetic as she tried it out.

From Seattle Times

His killing came a week after the apparent beheading of another Japanese man, Haruna Yukawa.

From BBC

Their existence had been predicted in 1934 by Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, who speculated that they carried the force that binds the atomic nucleus together, counteracting the mutual electromagnetic repulsion of its positively charged protons.

From Literature

Less than a week late, another film reveals that a second Japanese man, Kenji Goto, who had gone to Syria to plead for Yukawa’s life, has also been murdered.

From The Guardian

The 47-year-old, a veteran war correspondent, was captured in October 2014 after travelling to Syria to try to secure the release of Yukawa.

From The Guardian