Hideki Yukawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981) · Japan · Scientists · Died at 74
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Something wrong?He predicted a particle no one had seen, invented it on paper to explain what holds atomic nuclei together, and when the meson turned up in cosmic rays years later, became the first Japanese Nobel laureate in physics.
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Born Ogawa on 23 January 1907, Hideki Yukawa built his career on a single audacious idea: that nuclear forces required a new particle to make sense. Working purely from theory, he described mesons before anyone had observed one - a leap that redefined how physicists understood the forces binding protons and neutrons. When experiment caught up with imagination, the Nobel followed in 1949. He died on 8 September 1981, having opened a door that others would walk through for decades.
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