Ye Shuhua | |||||||
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叶叔华 | |||||||
Member of the 8th and 9th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | |||||||
In office 1998–2008 | |||||||
Chairman | Wu Bangguo | ||||||
Member of the 5th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | |||||||
In office 1978–1983 | |||||||
Chairman | Deng Xiaoping | ||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born | Guangzhou, Guangdong, Republic of China | 21 June 1927||||||
Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
Spouse | Cheng Jitai | ||||||
Alma mater | Sun Yat-sen University | ||||||
Scientific career | |||||||
Fields | Astronomy | ||||||
Institutions | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory | ||||||
Academic advisors | Zou Yixin | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 叶叔华 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 葉叔華 | ||||||
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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.