Osaka University’s Graduate School of Science has received the blackboard that Professor Hideki YUKAWA, the first Japanese Nobel Prize winner, regularly used in his lab at Columbia University in the U.S.

Professor Yukawa conducted research for six years as a lecturer and an assistant professor at the School of Science of Osaka Imperial University.

In 1934, while still a lecturer, he announced the meson theory in which he predicted the existence of mesons, entirely unknown before his announcement. A few years later when mesons were discovered, Professor Yukawa’s achievement was publicly acknowledged and in 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his achievement.

We hope that students at the Graduate School of Science will deepen discussions using this blackboard and Osaka University will continue to lead a way to the future of physics.

※This blackboard is placed in a research building, and is not usually open to the public.