Hong-Yee Chiu

Hong-Yee Chiu (; born November 1, 1932) is a Taiwanese astrophysicist. He worked under NASA for 35 years and was the publisher of the EHGBooks micro-publishing company.

Early life and education Chiu was born in Shanghai, China, on November 1, 1932, and was raised there until he was ten years old.

Career After receiving his doctorate, he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until 1961. Chiu served as a Space Astrophysics Scientist for NASA for over 35 years. He was credited as the first scientist to introduce the term quasar for quasi-stellar radio sources (QSRS) in his Physics Today article in May 1964, and again in the proceedings of the First Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, published in 1965. But the term was slow to catch on because the true nature of these objects remained poorly understood at the time.

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.

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. His late brother Hungdah Chiu was a scholar of international law.

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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