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Also Known As	fundamental force • basic force

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Yukawa Hideki at Columbia University, 1949.

Yukawa Hideki

Japanese physicist

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Martinus J.G. Veltman

Dutch physicist

Hooft, Gerardus 't

Gerardus ’t Hooft

Dutch physicist