Yukawa Memorial Room
YITP preserves the former director’s office used by Hideki Yukawa as “Yukawa Memorial Room” in order to let his research life imagined and to remember his great achievement.
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Permanent exhibition “Hideki Yukawa and his favorite books : Origins of a Nobel prize physicist”
The Yukawa Memorial Room possess a number of Yukawa’s favorite books that he read in his early childhood through later years. And in his autobiography and essay, he told many things about his relation with books such as when he came across the books and what he thought through reading them.
We display both his collection and mention of books, hoping you feel close relationship between reading and mentality formation of physicist Hideki Yukawa.
Reservations are required for tours.
To make a reservation, please follow the instructions on the reservation site below.
https://www.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en-GB/tenji
The library is not the contact point for Yukawa Memorial Hall tours.
For inquiries regarding tours and the Yukawa Memorial Room:
https://www.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en-GB/inquiry
Books in the Yukawa Memorial Room : List and Search
This is a list of more than 3,000 books collected and exhibited in the Yukawa Memorial Room.
Click to download the list as of the updated date as an PDF file.
List of Books in the Yukawa Memorial Room ( updated on September 2024, pdf file 4.3MB)
The collection is updated regularly, so please check “KULINE” (Kyoto University Online Public Access Catalog) for the latest information.
(How to search)
Select “Advanced Search”
Select “possession classification” from the selection menu in the right box, and enter “YUKAWA” in the left search box.
If you have any other items you would like to search for, such as book titles or author names, please enter them in another search box.
