Yukawa, Hideki (1907–1981)
Japanese physicist who postulated the meson as the agent bonding the atomic nucleus together. In fact, the mu-meson, or muon, discovered shortly afterwards (in 1936) by Carl Anderson, does not fulfill this role and Yukawa had to wait until C. F. Powell discovered the pi-meson, or pion, in 1947 for vindication of his theory. Yukawa received the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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