History, outline｜Department of Physics I,II

History of our department

Jun. 1897: Founded as Kyoto Imperial University.
Sep. 1897: Collage of Science and Engineering was opened.
Jun. 1898: Department of Mathematics,
Department of Physics,
Department of Chemisty established.
Jul. 1914: Collage of Science and Engineering was separated into
Collage of Science and Collage of Engineering.
Feb. 1919: Collage of Science became Faculty of Science.
Oct. 1947: Renamed to Kyoto University.
Apr. 1953: Graduate School of Science established
The 9 undergraduate courses were reorganized into
Apr. 1994: The 9 undergraduate courses were reorganized into
single course "Course of Schience"
Reorganization of Graduate School of Science
Apr. 1995: Reorganized as Graduate Course of Physics and Astronomy

1949: Hideki Yukawa
"For his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"
1965: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
"For their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
2008: Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa
"For the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature