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...misty and cool at the top of the mountain. The sisters and their mother breathe it in hard after their hour-long hike, which followed a four-hour drive north from Tokyo, which followed a 12-hour flight from London. Cassie Yukawa, 20, clutches a fistful of wildflowers for the father she last saw when she was four. It was here that Akihisa Yukawa was killed 16 years ago this day, Aug. 12, in a Japan Airlines 747 crash along with 519 others, the worst disaster in history involving a single plane. Weeks after his death, Yukawa's second daughter...
DIED. Hideki Yukawa, 74, Japanese physicist who, while working as a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1949, became his country's first Nobel prizewinner for his theories on subatomic particles, which predicted the existence of the meson, a bit of energized matter believed to hold the atomic nucleus together; of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
Later, when A-bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein expressed deep regret. After the war, he apologized personally ?and in tears?to visiting Japanese Physicist Hideki Yukawa. On another occasion, he said, "Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing for the bomb...
...quantum mechanics describes the forces between particles in terms of other, "mediating" particles. The mediating particle of gravity is called the graviton. The mediating particle of the electromagnetic force is called the photon. And the mediating particle of the "strong" force, proposed in 1934 by the Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, is called the "pion...
...heaviest fallout was emotional. Indignation, fear and an undercurrent of hysteria roiled the world from Milan, where pregnant peasant women were convinced they would bear monsters, to Kyoto, where Nobel Laureate Physicist Hideki Yukawa wailed that "humanity is now doomed with this cancer called the nuclear weapon...