Hideki Yukawa
1907 – 1981 · Japan · Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1949
Predicted the meson and the nuclear strong force.
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Inherited from1
- Niels Bohr
1885 – 1962 · Physics
Bohr's 1937 Japan visit and nuclear model framed Yukawa's meson theory.
Passed the work to1
- Abdus Salam
1926 – 1996 · Physics
The meson-exchange picture of forces is the ancestor of gauge-boson unification.
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