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Hideki Yukawa: Japan's First Nobel Laureate in Physics

Hideki Yukawa won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons, the particles that mediate the nuclear force. His work transformed particle physics and inspired postwar Japan's scientific rise.

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Hideki Yukawa won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons, the particles that mediate the nuclear force. His work transformed particle physics and inspired postwar Japan's scientific rise.

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