Hong-Yee Chiu

Hong-Yee Chiu (Chinese: 丘宏義; pinyin: Qiū Hōngyì; born October 1932) is a Taiwanese-American astrophysicist, at NASA for 35 years, and publisher of EHGBooks micro-publishing company. He was born in Shanghai, China.

Hong-Yee Chiu and Ma Ying-jeou, President of Republic of China, Taiwan

Career

Chiu graduated from National Taiwan University and in 1959 received his PhD in Astrophysics from Cornell University. After graduation, he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until 1961.^[1]

Chiu served as a Space Astrophysics Scientist for NASA for over 35 years.^[2][3] He was credited as the first scientist to introduce the term "quasar," in his Physics Today article in May 1964.^[4][5] In 1969, Chiu became the first Chinese-American scientist to receive the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.^[6]

After his retirement from NASA, Chiu started the EHanism Group and developed an EHGBooks micropublishing app with some notable Chinese computer scientists in order to promote Chinese culture and Sinology memory. With his niece and assistant Nonny Hsueh, the family helped the National Central Library of Taiwan to participate in the World Digital Library organization under the auspices of UNESCO in 2008. Later on, Chiu led the EHanism Group to develop the first Amazon Micropublishing Chinese Solution in 2012. Chiu is the host of the 2013 Taiwan Reunion Program for NTU Early Graduates in commemoration of the 85th anniversary of National Taiwan University.^[7]

Family

His father, Han-Ping Chiu, was an economist and lawyer in Shanghai during the Republican Era in China and the financial prime minister of Fukien Province, China^{[citation needed]}. His late brother Hungdah Chiu was a scholar of international law^{[citation needed]}.

Research

Source:^[3]

• "Gravitational collapse" Physics Today 17, 5, 21 (1964)
• "A Tunable X-ray Interferometer and the Empirical Determination of Phase Diffracted X-rays"
• "Supernovae, Neutrinos, and Neutron Stars"
• "Neutrino Theory of Stellar Collapse in Type II Supernovae"^[8]

Publications

• 2012: Literature and Science / EHGBooks, USA
• 2012: Bilingual Introduction to Chinese and Western Poetry / EHGBooks, USA
• 2011: The Real China: Meteoric Renaissance – Relations with the West / EHGBooks, USA
• 2011: War among Gods and Men / EHGBooks, USA