Yasuo Tanaka was a Japanese astrophysicist and a member of the Japan Academy. He was professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in Kanagawa, Japan and guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany.
- Occupation
- astronomer, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Japan, Empire of Japan
- Born
- 1931, March 18, 1931
- Died
- January 18, 2018
