Yukawa

Yukawa is a Japanese surname, but is also applied to proper nouns.

People

• Diana Yukawa (born 1985), Anglo-Japanese solo violinist. She has had two solo albums with BMG Japan, one of which opened to #1
• Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981), FRSE (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki?, 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) né Ogawa (小川?), was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate

Fictional characters

• Manabu Yukawa from Galileo

Places

• Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, a research institute in the field of theoretical physics, attached to Kyoto University in Japan
• Yukawa Station, a train station in Nachikatsuura, Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Other

• Yukawa interaction, named after Hideki Yukawa, is an interaction between a scalar field φ and a Dirac field Ψ of a particular type
• Yukawa potential, a potential of a particular form
• Yukawa–Tsuno equation, first developed in 1959, is a linear free-energy relationship in physical organic chemistry
• Yukawa Dam

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