Word: meson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colleagues were well aware, Scientist Yukawa was entitled to some congratulations himself. Ten years earlier, when he was a 28-year-old lecturer at Japan's Osaka University, Yukawa had taken the next step beyond the theory of nuclear fission with his brilliantly propounded theory of the meson. It had taken him more than a year simply to write out the mathematical formula through which he arrived at his conclusion: that a previously unknown type of particle was a clue to the force that held the nucleus of the atom together. Two years later the unknown particle was verified...
...reporter asked Professor Yukawa how he had conceived the meson theory. Said...
...sleep at night. Sometimes at night I thought of very interesting things. Almost always, in the morning, these things turned out to be untrue. But once in a great while one of them was true and unusual. This was the way, at night, that I thought of the meson theory...
...Dean Meson of the Graduate School of Public Administration, Robert F. Bales, assistant professor of Social Relations, and Stewart Hughes, assistant professor of History, will discuss "The Processes of Consensus in Research" at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Littauer Auditorium...
...After many garbled rumors, the University of California admitted that it had created the first man-made meson, which is: 1. An underground stream of water...