Ye Shuhua

Ye Shuhua
叶叔华
Member of the 8th and 9th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office
1998–2008
ChairmanWu Bangguo
Member of the 5th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office
1978–1983
ChairmanDeng Xiaoping
Personal details
Born (1927-06-21) 21 June 1927 (age 97)
Guangzhou, Guangdong, Republic of China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
SpouseCheng Jitai
Alma materSun Yat-sen University
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsShanghai Astronomical Observatory
Academic advisorsZou Yixin
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYè Shūhuá

Ye Shuhua (Chinese: 叶叔华; born June 21, 1927) is a Chinese astronomer and professor at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, known for achieving one of the world's most precise measurements of Universal Time in the 1960s, and for establishing the very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) and satellite laser ranging (SLR) techniques in China.

Ye served as President of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Vice-President of the Chinese Astronomical Society, and Vice-President of the International Astronomical Union. She is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a foreign fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of Britain. The asteroid 3241 Yeshuhua is named after her.