Yasuo Tanaka (astronomer)

Yasuo Tanaka (田中 靖郎, Tanaka Yasuo^?) is a Japanese astrophysicist. He is professor emeritus at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) (part of JAXA) in Kanagawa, Japan, and was guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany.

He is a pioneer X-ray astronomy, leading the development and operation of the GINGA, TENMA, and ASCA satellites.^[1]

Honors

Awards

• James Craig Watson Medal (1994)
• Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences (1998) ^[1]
• Bruno Rossi Prize (2001)
• Person of Cultural Merit (2011)

Named after him

• Asteroid 4387 Tanaka

Other

• The American Astronomical Society named him an Honorary Member (2012)

References