Cover News Reporter Zhang Jie Intern Wu Yuke "The path I grew up as a scientist is the same path I have walked as a person." "Every spring, my home is full of the fragrance of plum blossoms." The famous Japanese physicist Hide Yukawa (1907-1981), is taciturn, shy, quick-thinking

Cover News Reporter Zhang Jie Intern Wu Yuke

"The path I grew up as a scientist is the same path I have walked as a person." "Every spring, my home is full of the fragrance of plum blossoms."

The famous Japanese physicist Hide Yukawa (1907-1981), is taciturn and shy, quick-thinking and studious, and has shown her talent in science since she was a child. At the age of fifty, he wrote down his childhood and youth, reviewed how he became associated with physics and finally proposed the meson theory. In his memoir "Traveler: The Memories of a Physicist, Yukawa describes the scenery he saw as a traveler and a wilderness pioneer in the road of life and the road of exploring knowledge in quiet and simple words. In December 2022, the book was also introduced in Chinese by Shanghai translation publisher.

Yukawa Hideki was born in Tokyo in 1907. Graduated from the Department of Physics, Department of Science, Kyoto Imperial University (now Kyoto University). In 1938, he obtained a Ph.D. in science from Osaka Imperial University (now Osaka University ). In 1948, he went to the United States and served as a visiting professor of at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies. Later, he served as a visiting professor and professor of at Columbia University in since July of the following year. In October 1949, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his founding of the meson theory, which was a precedent for Japan to win the Nobel Prize in .

In "Traveler: Memories of a Physicist", Yukawa Hideki did not talk about too much advanced theoretical physics knowledge, and he rarely even mentioned his academic achievements. He told the story, describing his hometown and his surroundings as he grew up in life, talking about his relatives and friends in his memory, his childhood, his introverted and sensitive personality and all kinds of troubles he encountered. He talked about his thoughts so frankly, and showed the readers the path of life he had walked without reservation. But this is enough to let readers understand what they are, what exactly makes this Nobel Prize winner, and how rich the inner world such a unique person has.

Yukawa's memories remained at the time of proposing the meson theory, that is, at the age of twenty-seven. He wrote in the ending: "I don't want to write from here anymore, because the days I persist in research are worthy of my memory. On the other hand, I can't help but feel sad when I think about how I am increasingly troubled by things other than research."

In the preface, Yukawa Hideki sorted out the life and scientific research path he had walked, "Based on ordinary standards, what I have walked is not a difficult path. I was born in a family of scholars and grew up with several brothers who later became scholars in some aspects. The education I received was very liberal, and I had not experienced the hard work of the world. I have a lucky environment. But if I ask how I went, it is not so tempting to ask "exploring the path of knowledge". Easy to analyze. Although I am lucky in some ways, I cannot deny that I have experienced more hardships. Physics is a science that has made rapid progress in the 20th century. It can be said that I just took the high momentum of a new science to do what I like to do. It is only this point that, as I did in the past, I hope to be a traveler and a pioneer of wilderness. Sometimes, a piece of cultivated land is abandoned aside despite its harvest. Today's truth may be denied tomorrow, and this is why we must always review the path we walked yesterday in order to find the path we are going to go tomorrow. "

Yukawa is cautious enough to write about himself," The face that a person sees in the mirror is the face that others see. However, when he reveals the inner world that others cannot see, the listener may be surprised. These two different observations may be difficult to agree. This is especially true for me, because I always feel difficult to express my views. At the same time, I also tend to look at problems subjectively, and if I try to be objective, I may betray myself."

As a scientist, Yukawa Hideki has strong rational thinking and her literary talent is also very prominent. In the book, he mentioned that he once wrote a French essay titled "Walking". There is a sentence like this, "I don't want to seek the strong stimulation of the city. I'm too lazy to want to travel in the countryside far away from the city. My house is near the palace, and I often walk in the palace garden. Autumn is the best time. The fallen leaves spread on the path among the ancient woods of the imperial palace made a slight sound under my clogs, and this sound was like an unforgettable echo in my heart. There is a large square in the palace, and several groups of children occupy several corners to play baseball on Sundays... Looking up at them, I saw a lonely ginkgo branch with leaves falling out, shining with pink light in the sun. I always walk out of the house to think about a certain problem, but my attention is attracted by the things around me, forgetting everything else, I walk home easily and happily..."

Hyukawa Hideki revealed in her memoir that I am a lonely walker in reality. My new idea came from a walk. Because I don't like to talk by nature, I usually sit in the laboratory and read magazines all day without saying a word to anyone. In the eyes of my friends, I must appear neither friendly nor happy. I am not satisfied with my behavior, but I find it difficult to change. I believe that not only I am unhappy, but I cannot make others happy either, so I feel that I should be lonely all my life. ”

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