was a Japanese

radio astronomer Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The first detection of radio waves from an astronomical object was in 1933, when Karl Jansky at Bell Telephone Laboratories reported radiation coming ...

. He founded the Nobeyama Radio Observatory. The crater Hatanaka on the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...

is named after him.

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* http://www12.plala.or.jp/m-light/Nomenclature.htm (in Japanese) 1914 births 1963 deaths 20th-century Japanese astronomers {{japan-astronomer-stub