UNESCO honors late Nobel laureate Yukawa

UNESCO honors late Nobel laureate Yukawa

KYOTO, Japan - The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization honored Japan's late Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa with special UNESCO medals on May 17, 2005, two years before the centenary of his birth in 2007. Sumi Yukawa, his widow, shows the medals given to her husband who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 to become the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel prize.

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