Today, "95-year-old female academician encourages women to break the glass ceiling" rushed to the top ⬇ of the hot search
Held on November 3
The world's top scientists "She" forum
The 95-year-old female academician gave a speech in English
She is Ye Shuhua, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the first female observatory director in China
She encourages women to break the "glass ceiling"
"If you want to get something, you have to work hard to fight for it"
In this regard, netizens have expressed their opinions ⬇
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The first female researcher in the observatory
As an outstanding woman, Ye Shuhua is very concerned about issues such as gender equality, women's education, and women's political participation. It's also about her experience when she first started working.
In the summer of 1950, Ye Shuhua and his lover went from Hong Kong to nanjing Purple Mountain Observatory to seek employment. Hopefully, she got a reply: only one man was hired. This made Ye Shuhua, who has a unique character and a bright heart, unacceptable, and she wrote a long letter to the director of the Purple Mountain Observatory, listing five reasons why "you should not use yourself".
At the end of November 1951, Ye Shuhua entered the Shanghai Xujiahui Observatory, which belonged to the Purple Mountain Observatory at that time. Prior to this, there were no female staff at the Xujiahui Observatory.
In 1981, Ye Shuhua became the director of the Shanghai Observatory, and she also became the first female director of the Observatory in China.
Ye Shuhua's graduation photo of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, National Sun Yat-sen University (June 1949)
The mother of "Beijing time"
The national time work conference held that year proposed the establishment of China's comprehensive universal time system. When China was established as a comprehensive world, Ye Shuhua was responsible.
In order to find a data processing method suitable for China's integrated universal time, after several months of repeated experiments, we finally found a method that a small number of observatory observations can still maintain long-term stability.
In 1965, China's comprehensive universal time system passed the national appraisal and was officially used as China's time benchmark, and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued an announcement to broadcast to the whole country, and "Beijing time" turned out.
The results proved that the accuracy of China's world time system surpassed the Soviet standard time system and jumped to the second place in the world.
It is proposed to develop VLBI technology to lay the foundation for deep space exploration
In 1973, Ye Shuhua boldly proposed the development of very long baseline interferometry (vlbi) technology, which can be used both in time and in astrophysical research. At ye Shuhua's insistence, a 6-meter radio telescope was built in 1979, followed by a 25-meter radio telescope in Shanghai and Urumqi. At the beginning of China's lunar exploration project, Ye Shuhua and colleagues of shanghai astronomical observatory proposed to use VLBI technology to help determine the orbit, which played an important role in China's lunar exploration project.
In early 2008, after the success of Chang'e-1, when the Shanghai municipal leaders met with relevant personnel, Ye Shuhua proposed that Shanghai's vlbi antenna was the smallest and oldest, hoping to do something new, which contributed to the 65-meter aperture radio telescope project cooperated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Municipality.
In 2012, the Shanghai 65-meter radio telescope was completed, which played a very good role in China's deep space exploration and astronomical research. In 2019, the 65-meter radio telescope was awarded the Shanghai Special Science and Technology Progress Award, and its overall performance ranked third in the world.
In 1964, Ye Shuhua observed on the Danrong contour.
Committed to promoting the "APSG" and "SKA" projects
In 1994, Ye Shuhua proposed the Asia-Pacific Space Geodynamics Program (APSG Program). The following year, the 21st General Assembly of the International Geodesy and Geophysical Union, which is held once every four years, was held in the United States, and Ye Shuhua went to the United States to submit the Apsg plan. Amid all the doubts, Ye Shuhua won the support of various countries for China's Apsg plan.
"That was the first time in the world that China's astronomical community won a large-scale international cooperation project initiated by us and hosted by us, which is really not easy." Ye Shuhua sighed.
China is now involved in an international science project called the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope (SKA), and Ye hopes to build a regional science data center in Shanghai, not limited to China, or even to Asia. In addition, she and her observatory colleagues are also proposing a space low-frequency VLBI plan.
"Ye Shu Hua Xing"
With the courage to innovate, the spirit of scientific research defying difficulties and the outstanding contributions made in the field of astronomy, Ye Shuhua was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980 (then known as a member of the Academic Department); from 1981 to 1993, he was the director of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; in 1985, he was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Astronomical Society; from 1988 to 1994, he was re-elected as the vice chairman of the International Astronomical Union for two consecutive terms, which was the first person in the Chinese astronomical community to hold this position; and in 1996 he was elected as a "foreign member of the Royal Astronomical Society" Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Space Geodynamics International Cooperation Program.
She has won the National Science Congress and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Major Achievement Award, the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award and the First Prize of the Ministry Science and Technology Progress Award, and won the highest honor award of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Astronomical Society and the honorary title of the first "Top Ten Female Masters of China".
In August 1994, with the approval of the International Astronomical Union, asteroid 3241 discovered by the Nanjing Purple Mountain Observatory was named "Ye Shuhua Star".
She is now 95 years old
Still every weekday
Came to work at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Long starry road
Search up and down
Her gaze
Never left the vast galaxy
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Source/ China Women's Daily (Reporters: Ding Xiuwei, Juliet) Comprehensive Shanghai Association for Science and Technology
Editors/Pastoral Yellow Butterfly, Chen Xiaobing
Review/Zhifei