Satori Kato

{{short description|Japanese chemist}}

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Satori Kato (June 1847 - ?) was a Japanese chemist.{{cite web | title = Kato souvenir : Pan-American Exposition | last = Kato Coffee Company | url = https://archive.org/details/katosouvenirpana00kato | year = 1901 | accessdate = 2013-12-20}} Kato was initially thought to be the inventor of the first soluble instant coffee whilst working in Chicago, after filing a patent in 1901 and exhibiting the product at the Pan-American Exposition{{ cite patent | country = US | number = 735777 | status = patent | title = Coffee Concentrate and Process of Making Same | gdate = 1903-08-11 | fdate = 1901-04-17 | pridate = 1901-04-17 | invent1 = Satori Kato | assign1 = Kato Coffee Company}} until it was rediscovered that David Strang of Invercargill, New Zealand had invented the product twelve years earlier.{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Bridget |date=2012-12-16 |title=Instant coffee invented down south |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/8085893/Instant-coffee-invented-down-south |publisher=Stuff.co.nz |accessdate=2013-12-20 }} The New Zealand newspaper, Southland Times, reported on the Strang's patent in 1889.https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST18890706.2.15