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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1949

"for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa
Japan
Kyoto Imperial University
Kyoto, Japan; Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
b. 1907
d. 1981
 
 
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