Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun yukawa

1 sense of yukawa

Sense 1
Yukawa, Hideki Yukawa -- (Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981))
       INSTANCE OF=> nuclear physicist -- (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)