DR. HIDEKI YUKAWA; DISCOVERED ELECTRONS
Author: Associated Press
Date: Tuesday, September 8, 1981
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Section: RUN OF PAPER OBITUARY
Dr. Hideki Yukawa, who discovered electrons and became the first Japanese to
win the Nobel Prize, died today of acute pneumonia and heart disease at his
home in Kyoto, his doctor said. He was 74.
Mr. Yukawa was known worldwide for his contributions to the development of
theoretical physics and won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1949.
Before World War II, he won international acclaim for his discovery of
electrons, then unknown in the atom's nucleus. The existence of electrons in
cosmic rays, discovered later by other physicists, were named in his honor as
Yukawa Electrons or U-Electrons.
Mr. Yukawa's last public appearance was in June, when he joined a group of
pacifist scholars and scientists who issued a statement demanding a ban on
nuclear weapons.
A special award was conferred on Mr. Yukawa by Emperor Hirohito in 1940
and he received the Culture Order in 1943.
During his long career, Mr. Yukawa taught physics at Kyoto University and
Columbia University in New York. He also conducted research under the
direction of Dr. Robert Oppenhemier at the Advanced Scientific Research
Institute at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Mr. Yukawa is survived by his wife, Sumi.
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