Nobel laureate's widow Yukawa dies at 96

Nobel laureate's widow Yukawa dies at 96

KYOTO, Japan - Sumi Yukawa (in file photo taken in May 2005), antinuclear arms activist and widow of the first Japanese Nobel prize winning physicist Hideki Yukawa, died at her home in Kyoto of stomach cancer on May 14, her family said. She was 96.

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