| Hideki Yukawa  Born: 23-Jan-1907
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Died: 8-Sep-1981
Location of death: Kyoto, Japan
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Buddhist
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Japan
Executive summary: Predicted existence of mesons The first Japanese to be awarded a Nobel prize. Father: Takuji Ogawa (Professor of Geology, Kyoto University)
Wife: Sumiko (m. 1932, two sons)
Son: Harumi
Son: Takaaki
University: Kyoto Imperial University (1929)
University: PhD, Osaka Imperial University (1938)
Professor: Physics, Kyoto Imperial University (1939-50)
Professor: Visiting Professor, Princeton University (1948-49)
Professor: Visiting Professor, Columbia University (1949-50)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1949
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
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