Yukawa

Yukawa (written: 湯川) is a Japanese surname, but is also applied to proper nouns.

People

 * Diana Yukawa (born 1985), Anglo-Japanese solo violinist. She has had two solo albums with BMG Japan, one of which opened to #1
 * Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981), Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate
 * Morio Yukawa (1908–1988), Japanese economist and diplomat
 * Tsutomu Yukawa (1911–1942), Japanese aikidoka

Places

 * Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, a research institute in the field of theoretical physics, attached to Kyoto University in Japan
 * Yukawa Station, a train station in Nachikatsuura, Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Other

 * Yukawa interaction, named after Hideki Yukawa, is an interaction between a scalar field φ and a Dirac field Ψ of a particular type
 * Yukawa potential, a potential of a particular form
 * Yukawa–Tsuno equation, first developed in 1959, is a linear free-energy relationship in physical organic chemistry
 * Yukawa Dam