汤川秀树出生于日本东京。父亲汤川琢治是地质学家。汤川小时候显得有些迟钝。他遇到麻烦的时候总不愿意多说话,家里人给他起了外号叫:“我不想说”,学校里的同学则叫他:权兵卫(无名小卒)”。汤川沉默的性格,却让他不停地默默思考问题。他对一些事物的思考总是不满足于现在人们 Hideki Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan. His father, Yuji Yugawa, was a geologist. Yukawa appeared a bit dull as a child. When he was in trouble, he did not want to talk more. The family member gave him a nickname and said: “I don’t want to say,” and the school classmate called him: Quan Bingwei (anonymous)." Yukawa’s silent character, But he kept thinking silently about his problems, and his thinking about some things was always not satisfied with people nowadays.