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Born January 23, 1907 • Tokyo • Japan
Died September 8, 1981 (aged 74) • Kyōto • Japan
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study Yukawa meson • fundamental interaction • subatomic particle

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Yukawa Hideki at Columbia University, 1949.
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