YUKAWA HIDEKI: (1907-1981) Japanese Theoretical Physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1949 and the first ...

YUKAWA HIDEKI: (1907-1981) Japanese Theoretical Physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1949 and the first Japanese Nobel Laureate. A good manuscript D.S., Hideki Yukawa, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. Yukawa responds to a researcher's questionnaire featuring their questions at the head of the page, '1. Were (sic) your scientific ''debut'' easy or difficult? 2. Did means of living (another profession or a private income) enable you to make yourself known in science?.......3. What work (or what discovery) made yourself more famous? Which do you consider as your master-piece?'. The physicist provides his answers below, in full, '1. Not very difficult. At least I did not think it very difficult, because I was young. 2. When I was young, i.e. a few years after graduation from the university. I had to depend more or less on my parents. 3. A paper entitled ''On the Interaction of Elementary Particles'', which was published early in 1935'. An interesting document. Some light age wear and minor creasing, largely to the extreme edges and not affecting Yukawa's text or signature, about VG