Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry
DEC 01, 1949
Yukawa and Giauque honored
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066329
This year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, Hideki Yukawa of Kyoto University in Japan, has been thus distinguished by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science for having postulated, in 1935, the theoretical necessity in atomic structure for an elementary particle intermediate in mass between the electron and the proton.
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