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Hideki Yukawa

1907 - 1981

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Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki, 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hideki Yukawa has received more than 414,087 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Hideki Yukawa is the 135th most popular physicist (up from 141st in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Japan (up from 72nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Physicist.

Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist who is most famous for his theory of mesons. He also predicted the existence of quarks.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Hideki Yukawa has had the most page views in the with 173,668 views, followed by English (56,905), and Chinese (18,622). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (247.39%), Chuvash (98.37%), and Maltese (86.71%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hideki Yukawa ranks 135 out of 851. Before him are Arno Allan Penzias, Frits Zernike, Ernst Abbe, Laura Bassi, Felix Bloch, and Walther Bothe. After him are William Henry Bragg, Peter Grünberg, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Rudolf Mössbauer, George Paget Thomson, and Donald A. Glaser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Hideki Yukawa ranks 20. Before him are Baldur von Schirach, Rachel Carson, Frank Whittle, Junji Nishikawa, Jacques Tati, and Lin Biao. After him are Robert A. Heinlein, Lars Ahlfors, Yang Shangkun, Bhagat Singh, Fred Zinnemann, and John Bowlby. Among people deceased in 1981, Hideki Yukawa ranks 10. Before him are Jacques Lacan, Albert Speer, Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, Natalie Wood, and Frederica of Hanover. After him are William Holden, William Wyler, Hans Adolf Krebs, Odd Hassel, Eugenio Montale, and Béla Guttmann.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideki Yukawa ranks 67 out of 6,245. Before him are Mako (1933), Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kane Tanaka (1903), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), and Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837). After him are Kenzō Tange (1913), Fumio Kishida (1957), Akira Toriyama (1955), Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Shirō Ishii (1892), and Date Masamune (1567).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Hideki Yukawa ranks 2. Before him are Isamu Akasaki (1929). After him are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Yoshio Nishina (1890), and Hiroshi Amano (1960).

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