Hong-Yee Chiu (
Chinese: 丘宏義; born October 1932) is a Taiwanese-American astrophysicist, at NASA for 35 years, and successful publisher of EHGBooks micro-publishing company. He was born in
Shanghai, China.
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 a famous economist and lawyer in Shanghai during the Republican Era in China and the financial prime minister of Fukien Province, China. His late brother
Hungdah Chiu was a notable scholar of international law.
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ab"Publications by Hong-Yee Chiu". National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
^Chiu, Hong-Yee (May 1964).
"Gravitational collapse". Physics Today. 17 (5): 21–34.
Bibcode:
1964PhT....17e..21C.
doi:10.1063/1.3051610. So far, the clumsily long name 'quasi-stellar radio sources' is used to describe these objects. Because the nature of these objects is entirely unknown, it is hard to prepare a short, appropriate nomenclature for them so that their essential properties are obvious from their name. For convenience, the abbreviated form 'quasar' will be used throughout this paper.
^"Hong-Yee Chiu (b. 1932)". Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0238. Retrieved April 6, 2013. Summary: Chinese-American astrophysicist Hong-Yee Chiu (b. 1932) is credited with coining the term "quasar" in 1964.