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 Kazuyuki Yukawa (1949–2025), Japanese politician Morio Yukawa (1908–1988), Japanese economist and diplomat Tsutomu Yukawa (1911–1942), Japanese aikidoka Yasutoshi Yukawa (1941–2014), Japanese linguist
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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