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Died. Shigenori Togo, 67, Japanese career diplomat who became Foreign Minister seven weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack and internal ailments; in Tokyo. Tried as a war criminal in 1948, he insisted that he had opposed Premier Hideki Tojo's expansionist policies, but was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment...
...fund-raising Manhattan tea party, Mrs. Sumi Yukawa, petite wife of Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Dr. Hideki Yukawa, won bravos for her costume performance of two classical Japanese dances. Her sons, Harumi, 17, and Takaki, 15, did not attend the exhibition. Explained Dr. Yukawa: "They're much more interested in baseball...
...People (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC Simulcast). Guests: Lauritz Melchior and Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Hideki Yukawa...
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, no one was more appreciative of the scientific achievement involved than a shy, balding Japanese physicist named Hideki Yukawa. At the time, Yukawa was 200 miles away at Japan's University of Kyoto. Later, when he arrived in this country, courteous Scientist Yukawa quietly congratulated U.S. nuclear physicists on their scientific achievement...
...Advanced Study at Princeton. Last spring Columbia University named him visiting professor of physics. One day last week, Yukawa dismissed his class for the day and reported to the office of Columbia's President Dwight Eisenhower. There he received a warm handshake and hearty congratulations. At 42, Hideki Yukawa had become the first of his countrymen to win a Nobel Prize. The $30,000 prize in physics was awarded for the theory Yukawa had propounded 14 years ago. (The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to University of California Professor William F. Giauque -pronounced Gee-oke-for his studies...