Wikipedia Trail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzabur%C5%8D_%C5%8Ce

I started out with Kenzaburo because I was interested in the fact that he had a brain damaged son who influence much of his writing, and also the fact that he was one of the first Japanese Nobel laureates in writing. I learned that he described his writing as primarily being about the "dignity of human beings". I became interested in others like him, so I decided to look at the list of other Nobel laureates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_Nobel_laureates

Overall, there have been 23 Japanese Nobel prize winners. The most won category is Physics with 9, the least won is Peace with only 1. From the list, I wanted to know who the first Japanese Nobel prize winner was and what he won a prize for, so I followed that link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa was the first Japanese Nobel prize winner for his advancements in theoretical physics. Not much is written about his personal life. He primarily studied the interactions between particle and became known for his theory of mesons. I wondered what that was, so I clicked on that link next.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meson

A meson is a subatomic particle that is made of a quark and an anti-quark. Mesons are very unstable and only exist for a fraction of a second at a time.The reason why mesons were important was because they needed to explain what held atomic nuclei together, because protons should be repelled by the electromagnetic force. Mesons are like the glue holding them in place.

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