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Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki; né Ogawa; 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces."

Source: “Hideki Yukawa”, English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), excerpt