Honors
Awards
- James Craig Watson Medal (1994)
- Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences (1998)
- 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)
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