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Yukawa Hideki

Yukawa Hideki
Japanese physicist Yukawa Hideki won the 1949 Nobel Prize in physics. Based on his research into quantum mechanics and the fields of force affecting elementary particles, he theoretically deduced the existence of mesons, a family of subatomic particles composed of quarks and antiquarks and having intermediate mass.
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Meson; Elementary Particles; Boson; Physics; Yukawa Hideki
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