Born on January 23
Hideki Yukawa's Birthday
The physicist who imagined the meson.
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Where it comes from
Hideki Yukawa was born in Tokyo on 23 January 1907, and this Story marks his birthday. He grew up in Kyoto and graduated from Kyoto University in 1929. In 1935, as a young lecturer at Osaka University, he published a paper proposing a new theory of the force that holds the atomic nucleus together, and predicted a new…
How it's celebrated
There is no public observance, but his birthday is a fine day to remember that great ideas can start with a pencil and a question. Students can look up how a particle was predicted on paper years before anyone saw it, and anyone can send a card to a young person who loves science.
Did you know
From 1946 he edited an English-language physics journal from Japan, Progress of Theoretical Physics.
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Star sign
Aquarius · January 20 – February 18 · Air sign
Original and independent, a little ahead of their time.