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Sakita was an exceptional mentor with an intense working relationship with many of his students whom he treated as his equals. Many of the CCNY students and research associates of this time have gone onto distinguished careers of their own. In recognition of his many contributions, he was the
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In 1970, Robert Marshak became president of the City College of New York. Sakita moved there as distinguished professor to participate in the rapid expansion of the physics program and to lead the High Energy Group. A strong group was built up with first rate work on many areas such as
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discovered in string theory to four-dimensional field theories with spacetime supersymmetry. (Different versions of supersymmetry had been discovered by two Soviet physicists, Yu. A. Gol'fand and E.P. Likhtman a little earlier; this was not known to physicists elsewhere at that time.)
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He died on August 31, 2002, in Japan after a year-long battle with cancer. He is survived by his children Mariko Sakita, Mark Mozeson and Taro Sakita, and his grandchildren Evan, Sarah, and Kayla Mozeson.
428: 270:, writing down the first linear supersymmetric action. In modern parlance the Gervais–Sakita Lagrangian has a local superconformal symmetry. The 1973 work of 183:. In Rochester, Sakita worked with Professor Charles Goebel and received his Ph.D in 1959. He went on to a postdoctoral position and a professorship at the 443: 438: 423: 235: 184: 458: 258:
In 1971, Jean-Loup Gervais and Bunji Sakita, in a paper titled "Field Theory Interpretation of Supergauges in Dual Models", showed the
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and others, he addressed the problem of unitarity of the dual amplitudes, setting up the formalism of dual diagrams, analogous to
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was mostly devoted to this idea. With Goebel, he obtained the many-particle generalization of the
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was a Japanese-American theoretical physicist who made important contributions in
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in 1971. He was a distinguished professor of physics at the
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In 1967, during a visit to Israel, he learned of the
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