Yukawa Hall and modern physics in Japan
JAN 01, 1955
Experimental physics research in Japan was all but crushed by the war and its aftermath, but with much intensity of purpose and devotion to their science Japanese physicists have turned to theory and are creating one of the world’s foremost centers of modern theoretical physics.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3061876
The award of the 1949 Nobel Prize for physics to Dr. Hideki Yukawa, professor of Kyoto University, was a matter of considerable importance to Japan. This news was received with tremendous joy by the Japanese and encouraged the scientists in Japan to continue their researches in spite of the economic condition of postwar Japan.
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M. Kobayasi, Kyoto University.
© 1955 American Institute of Physics
