Hong-Yee Chiu

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.{{cite web |title=Hong-Yee Chiu |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/hong-yee-chiu |website=Institute for Advanced Study |date=9 December 2019 |accessdate=20 June 2020}}

Chiu served as a Space Astrophysics Scientist for NASA for over 35 years.{{cite web |title=Hong-yee Chiu smoking a pipe at NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City |url=https://repository.aip.org/islandora/object/nbla%3A293719 |website=AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives |accessdate=5 March 2024}}{{cite web |title=Publications by Hong-Yee Chiu |url=https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/authors/hchiu.html |website=National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Goddard Institute for Space Studies |accessdate=20 June 2020}} He was credited as the first scientist to introduce the term "quasar," in his Physics Today article in May 1964.{{cite journal |last1=Chiu |first1=Hong-Yee |title=Gravitational collapse |journal=Physics Today |date=May 1964 |volume=17 |issue=5 |pages=21–34 |doi=10.1063/1.3051610 |bibcode=1964PhT....17e..21C |url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.3051610 |quote=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.|doi-access=free }}{{cite web|url=http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_290743|title=Hong-Yee Chiu (b. 1932)|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0238|accessdate=April 6, 2013|quote=Summary: Chinese-American astrophysicist Hong-Yee Chiu (b. 1932) is credited with coining the term "quasar" in 1964.}} In 1969, Chiu became the first Chinese-American scientist to receive the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.{{cite web |last1=Chiu |first1=Hong-Yee |title=NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4012/vol4/appa.htm |website=history.nasa.gov |accessdate=20 June 2020 |date=1969}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://host.cc.ntu.edu.tw/sec/schinfo/schinfo_asp/ShowContent.asp?num=1116&sn=11280|title="Two hundred early NTU American alumni plan to return next year to their alma mater to participate in the 85th anniversary celebration to promote the issue of 'memoirs of NTU people' " (Chinese)|publisher=National Taiwan University|accessdate=April 6, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102134204/http://host.cc.ntu.edu.tw/sec/schinfo/schinfo_asp/ShowContent.asp?num=1116&sn=11280|archivedate=November 2, 2014}}

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{{fact|date=November 2024}}. His late brother Hungdah Chiu was a scholar of international law{{fact|date=November 2024}}.

Source:

• [https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.3051610 "Gravitational collapse" Physics Today 17, 5, 21 (1964)]
• [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19900067270 "A Tunable X-ray Interferometer and the Empirical Determination of Phase Diffracted X-rays"]
• [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19640012658_1964012658.pdf "Supernovae, Neutrinos, and Neutron Stars"]
• [https://archive.org/download/nasa_techdoc_19900067353/19900067353.pdf "Neutrino Theory of Stellar Collapse in Type II Supernovae"]{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19900067353|title=Neutrino theory of stellar collapse in type 2 supernova|first1=Hong-Yee|last1=Chiu|first2=Robert W.|last2=Fuller|date=January 1, 1960|via=Internet Archive}}

• 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

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• Hong-Yee Chiu's "Memoirs Micro-publishing Project" (Chinese) [https://web.archive.org/web/20141102134204/http://host.cc.ntu.edu.tw/sec/schinfo/schinfo_asp/ShowContent.asp?num=1116&sn=11280] NTU Campus Journal Report, November 21, 2012.
• "Chiu: China Needs East and West" [https://archive.today/20130412044111/http://la.worldjournal.com/view/full_la/20804310/article-%E4%B8%98%E5%AE%8F%E7%BE%A9%EF%BC%9A%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E8%BA%8D%E9%80%B2%E9%9C%80%E4%B8%AD%E8%A5%BF%E4%BD%B5%E5%90%88?instance=la_bull_left1] World Journal News Report, November 12, 2012.
• "Chiu: Lecture Report" [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204713/http://la.worldjournal.com/view/full_la/20844010/article-%E6%B8%85%E5%A4%A7%E6%A0%A1%E5%8F%8B%E9%82%80%E4%B8%98%E5%AE%8F%E7%BE%A9%E6%BC%94%E8%AC%9B] World Journal News Report, November 18, 2012.
• "Chiu: Lecture Report" [https://archive.today/20130412043856/http://la.worldjournal.com/view/full_la/20759218/article-%E7%BE%8E%E8%A5%BF%E8%8F%AF%E4%BA%BA%E5%AD%B8%E6%9C%83%E5%B9%B4%E6%9C%83-%E4%B8%98%E5%AE%8F%E7%BE%A9%E8%AC%9B%E5%B0%81%E7%A5%9E%E6%A6%9C] World Journal News Report, November 8, 2012.
• CTITV interview [https://archive.today/20130418214533/http://www.ctitv.com.tw/news_video_c178v103969.html] CTITV, November 8, 2012.
• Chiu interview, "Human Rights Award for Dr. Li-Zhi Fang" [http://www.gvm.com.tw/Boardcontent_3339.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126145544/http://www.gvm.com.tw/Boardcontent_3339.html |date=2013-01-26 }} Yuan-Jian Magazine, January 1990.
• [http://www.ntueg.org/ NTU Early Graduate official website]
• [http://www.taiwanfellowship.org/ Taiwan Fellowship Publishing App]
• {{Amazon author page}}

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