# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yasuo-tanaka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:26:59.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yasuo-tanaka"
name: "Yasuo Tanaka"
slug: "yasuo-tanaka"
description: "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."
tagline: "Japanese astrophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yasuo_Tanaka.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-03-18"
deathDate: "2018-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.670374666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuo_Tanaka_(astronomer)"
    title: "Yasuo Tanaka (astronomer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "ياسو تاناكا (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuo_Tanaka_(Astronom)"
    title: "Yasuo Tanaka (Astronom)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasuo_Tanaka_(astronom)"
    title: "Jasuo Tanaka (astronom)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuo_Tanaka_(astronome)"
    title: "Yasuo Tanaka (astronome)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E9%9D%96%E9%83%8E"
    title: "田中靖郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325903"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump