Yukawa (written: 湯川) is a Japanese surname, but is also applied to proper nouns.
People
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Diana Yukawa (born 1985), Anglo-Japanese solo violinist. She has had two solo albums with BMG Japan, one of which opened to #1
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Hideki Yukawa
was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion.
Biography
He was born as Hideki Ogawa in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto with two older brothers, two older sisters, and two yo ...
(1907–1981), Japanese theoretical physicist and the first
Japanese Nobel laureate
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Morio Yukawa
was a Japanese economist and diplomat.
Yukawa served in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs during World War II and took part in the Japanese official delegation that met US General Douglas MacArthur in Manila on August 19, 1945, in order to ...
(1908–1988), Japanese economist and diplomat
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Tsutomu Yukawa Tsutomu Yukawa (; 1911–1942) was a Japanese aikidoka.
Born in Gobo in Wakayama prefecture, Yukawa began his martial arts training in judo, studying under Tesshin Hoshi. In 1931 he travelled to Tokyo to study at the Kodokan, but whilst in the city ...
(1911-1942), Japanese aikidoka
Fictional characters
Places
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Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, a research institute in the field of theoretical physics, attached to Kyoto University in Japan
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Yukawa Station, a train station in Nachikatsuura, Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Other
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Yukawa interaction
In particle physics, Yukawa's interaction or Yukawa coupling, named after Hideki Yukawa, is an interaction between particles according to the Yukawa potential. Specifically, it is a scalar field (or pseudoscalar field) and a Dirac field of the ...
, named after Hideki Yukawa, is an interaction between a scalar field φ and a Dirac field Ψ of a particular type
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Yukawa potential
In particle, atomic and condensed matter physics, a Yukawa potential (also called a screened Coulomb potential) is a potential named after the Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa. The potential is of the form:
:V_\text(r)= -g^2\frac,
where is a ...
, a potential of a particular form
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Yukawa–Tsuno equation, first developed in 1959, is a linear free-energy relationship in physical organic chemistry
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Yukawa Dam
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Japanese-language surnames