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FOUR years ago, Yukawa, in an attempt to develop a relativistic theory of the interaction of heavy particles in nuclei, was led to predict the existence of charged particles of mass intermediate between those of the electron and the proton1.
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Yukawa, H., Proc. Phys. Math. Soc. Japan, 17, 48 (1935); see also Fröhlich, H., Heitler, W., Kemmer, N., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 166, 154 (1938), and several papers quoted there.
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WICK, G. Range of Nuclear Forces in Yukawa's Theory. Nature 142, 993–994 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142993b0
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