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Nobel laureate physicist Nambu views Yukawa's blackboard

OSAKA, Japan - Yoichiro Nambu, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles before a blackboard used by the late physicist Hideki Yukawa, the first Japanese Nobel laureate, during an unveiling ceremony at the Toyonaka campus of Osaka University on May 13, 2014. Yukawa used the blackboard at Columbia University in New York.

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Nobel laureate Yukawa's blackboard unveiled

OSAKA, Japan - Harumi Yukawa (L), son of first Japanese Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa, and Yoichiro Nambu, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, unveil a blackboard used by the late physicist at Columbia University in New York during a ceremony at the Toyonaka campus of Osaka University on May 13, 2014.

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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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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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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 for her husband who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 to become the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel prize. (Kyodo)

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Contents of Nobel laureate Yukawa's letters to poet Yoshii disclosed

File photo taken in 1956 shows world-known physicist Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981), the first Japanese national who received a Nobel prize. Detailed contents of Yukawa's six letters sent to poet Isamu Yoshii (1886-1960) between March 1945 and January 1947, before receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949, were disclosed by Mitsuhiro Hosokawa, a professor at the University of Shizuoka, in an academic journal published in September 2015. The letters contain a total of nine "tanka" poems of Yukawa, including four unpublished poems. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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. (Kyodo)

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Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Photo taken on Nov. 14, 1968, shows Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate. A diary written by Yukawa around the end of World War II and disclosed to the public on Dec. 21, 2017, contains an entry confirming his attendance at a conference held in June 1945 to study nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Photo taken in 1956 shows Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate. A diary written by Yukawa around the end of World War II and disclosed to the public on Dec. 21, 2017, contains an entry confirming his attendance at a conference held in June 1945 to study nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Photo shows part of a diary written by Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, around the end of World War II. The diary, which Kyoto University disclosed to the public on Dec. 21, 2017, contains an entry confirming Yukawa's attendance at a conference held in June 1945 to study nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Keio University Professor Emeritus Michiji Konuma holds a diary written by Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, around the end of World War II in Kyoto on Dec. 21, 2017. The diary, Kyoto University disclosed to the public the same day, contains an entry confirming Yukawa's attendance at a conference held in June 1945 to study nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo