Akihisa Inoue (井上明久; born September 13, 1947) is a Japanese physicist. He is a former president of Tohoku University. His research interests lie in the field of materials science, particularly in the area of metallic glass. The first amorphous steels were discovered by Inoue at Tohoku University in Japan and reached thicknesses of one to two millimeters.
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