Katsuhiko Sato (physicist)
Katsuhiko Sato (佐藤 勝彦, Satō Katsuhiko; August 30, 1945) is a Japanese physicist and Special University Professor, emeritus, the University of Tokyo. Professor Sato published a paper advocating cosmic inflation in 1981, but it was not widely recognized by Western academic circles.
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