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
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".
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(1907–1981), Japanese theoretical physicist and the first
Japanese Nobel laureate
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Kazuyuki Yukawa (1949–2025), Japanese politician
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Morio Yukawa (1908–1988), Japanese economist and diplomat
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Tsutomu Yukawa (1911–1942), Japanese aikidoka
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Yasutoshi Yukawa (1941–2014), Japanese linguist
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 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
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Yukawa potential, a potential of a particular form
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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
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Yukawa Dam
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Japanese-language surnames