Kao Ping-tse (; 23 December 1888 – 23 March 1970) was a

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astronomer. He was entirely self-taught in this field. The crater Kao on the Moon is named in his honor. Kao was born in Shanghai. His father was a revolutionary, a Jǔrén 舉人, and a key figure of the ''Nan Society'' (''South Society'', 南社) in the late Qing Dynasty. The Wayback Machine's might be helpful, but it appears as a mess of eight-bit characters. He worked at

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, received from the Japanese after the Washington Naval Conference in 1924. He then worked at the

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Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, one of the founders of

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. During World War II, he lived in Shanghai. He moved to Taiwan in 1948, during the Chinese Civil War. He died in Taipei.

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