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

People

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

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

Hideki Yukawa Hideki Yukawa (; ; 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces". B ...

(1907–1981), Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate * Kazuyuki Yukawa (1949–2025), Japanese politician * Morio Yukawa (1908–1988), Japanese economist and diplomat * Tsutomu Yukawa (1911–1942), Japanese aikidoka * Yasutoshi Yukawa (1941–2014), Japanese linguist

Fictional characters

Places

* Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, a research institute in the field of theoretical physics, attached to Kyoto University in Japan * Yukawa Station, 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 between a scalar field (or pseudoscalar field) \ \phi\ and a Dira ...

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

Yukawa potential Yukawa (written: 湯川) is a Japanese surname, but is also applied to proper nouns. People * Diana Yukawa (born 1985), Anglo-Japanese solo violinist. She has had two solo albums with BMG Japan, one of which opened to #1 * Hideki Yukawa (1907–1 ...

, 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 () is a dam in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends f ...

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