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Minoru Oda (born February 24, 1923) in Sapporo, died March 1, 2001, is a Japanese Astrophysicist who played a key role in the Japanese space program  in the 1970s-1980s. Working in ISAS the space agency dedicated to scientific missions, he has developed several X-ray Space telescopes  such as Hakucho launched in 1979, which have made his country a leader in this field. He developed the modulation collimator used in X-ray astronomy before the development of telescopes capable of focusing this type of radiation. He was a director of ISAS as well as the big Japanese research institute RIKEN.

Honors and awards

 * 1964：Nishina Memorial Prize
 * 1970：Toray Science and Technology Prize
 * 1975：Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
 * 1981：Asahi prize（representative of the satellite observation team "Hakucho"）
 * 1986：Person of Cultural Merit
 * 1987：Tsiolkovski Prize
 * 1987：von Kármán Prize
 * 1988：Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences
 * 1991：Marcel Grossmann Prize
 * 1992：Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
 * 1993：Order of Culture
 * 1996：Committee on Space Research Award
 * 1997：Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure
 * 1999：Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences