Yukawa (written: 湯川) is a Japanese surname, but is also applied to proper nouns.

People

Diana Yukawa is a Japanese-born British solo violinist and composer. She has released four solo albums and one digital EP. Personal life Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, to English ballet dancer Susanne Bayly and Japanese banker Akihisa Yukawa one month af ...

(born 1985), Anglo-Japanese solo violinist. She has had two solo albums with BMG Japan, one of which opened to #1 *

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 Since 1949, there have been 29 Japanese laureates of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was firs ...

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 *

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

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics The is a research institute in the field of theoretical physics, attached to Kyoto University in Japan. It was inaugurated in 1952. While the center is often referred to as "YITP", this can be confusing as YITP also stands for the C. N. Yang Inst ...

, a research institute in the field of theoretical physics, attached to Kyoto University in Japan *

Yukawa Station is a passenger railway station in located in the town of Nachikatsuura, Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Lines Yukawa Station is served by the Kisei Main Line (Kinokuni Line), a ...

, a train station in Nachikatsuura, Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Other

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 t ...

, named after Hideki Yukawa, is an interaction between a scalar field φ and a Dirac field Ψ of a particular type *

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 m ...

, a potential of a particular form *

Yukawa–Tsuno equation The Yukawa–Tsuno equation, first developed in 1959,Yukawa Y, Tsuno Y. "Resonance Effect in Hammett Relationship. II. Sigma Constants in Electrophilic Reactions and their Intercorrelation." ''Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn.'' 32 965-71 (1959) is a linear fre ...

, first developed in 1959, is a linear free-energy relationship in physical organic chemistry *

Yukawa Dam Yukawa Dam ( ja, 湯川ダム) is a dam in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west ...

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