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 Since 1949, there have been 30 Japanese List of Nobel laureates, 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 ...

Kazuyuki Yukawa Kazuyuki Yukawa ( ''Yukawa Kazuyuki''; 15 August 1949 – 4 April 2025) was a Japanese politician. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served in the House of Representatives from 2012 to 2014. Yukawa died of aspiration pneumonia in Izum ...

(1949–2025), Japanese politician *

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 ci ...

(1911–1942), Japanese aikidoka *

Yasutoshi Yukawa Yasutoshi Yukawa (1941 – 25 August 2014) was a Japanese linguist who contributed to African and Tibetan linguistics. In 2006 his students and colleagues honoured his work with a Festschrift言語研究の射程: 湯川恭敏先生記念論集 ''Ge ...

(1941–2014), Japanese linguist

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 In ...

, 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 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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