佐藤文隆博士の逝去

In Memory of Dr. Fumitaka Sato

　仁科記念賞の受賞や、アインシュタイン方程式のトミマツ-サトウ解などで著名な物理学者 佐藤文隆博士が逝去されたニュース（2025年9月14日）に接した。私は単に、博士の一つの新書（下図）の読者にすぎないが、その叙述に感銘を受けていた。私は、物理学の素人であるが、ここ数年、量子コンピューティングの基礎的な技術に取り組んできた。その過程で、この書籍から量子論の哲学と言えるものを学ぶことができたように思う。ご冥福をお祈りします。

I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Fumitaka Sato on September 14, 2025.

He was a distinguished physicist, well known for receiving the Nishina Memorial Prize and for his contributions to general relativity, including the Tomimatsu–Sato solution of Einstein’s field equations.

Personally, I am only a humble reader of one of his books (pictured below), yet his writing left a lasting impression on me. Though I am not a professional physicist, in recent years I have been working on the foundations of quantum computing. Along the way, I felt that Dr. Sato’s book allowed me to glimpse something of the philosophy of quantum theory—a perspective that resonated with my own journey of exploration.

May he rest in peace.