Claim: Ye Shuhua (born June 21, 1927 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China) 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 who spent most of her school years during the Second Sino-Japanese War but had never left her hometown.
Evidence: She spent most of her school years during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), and had to move repeatedly with her family from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, Shaoguan, and Lian County, because of the war.