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 Fictional characters 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 Japanese-language surnames