Ye Zhupei
Born into an overseas Chinese family in the Philippines and educated in the United States, he moved to China in the 1930s and served in both the Kuomintang and the Communist governments.Ye Zhupei (or Yap Chu-Phay in Hokkien) was born in 1902 in Manila, American Philippines, into an overseas Chinese family that originated from Xiamen, Fujian.[1][2] His father, Ye Duxing (叶独醒), was a businessman and follower of the revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.[2] He entered Colorado School of Mines in the United States in 1921, and subsequently earned an M.S.He advocated the development of oxygen converter process for steelmaking, but others insisted on building large open hearth furnaces, a technology that was becoming obsolete.[2] In articles published in 1987 in Ye's memory, the prominent scientist Yan Jici praised his contributions to China which went far beyond the field of metallurgy, the entrepreneurial spirit that his career was imbued with, and his devotion to truth even under extremely difficult circumstances.[2] While a visiting scientist in New York City, Ye Zhupei met his wife Marcelia Vance Yeh, an Irish-American from Ohio, through their friends Toshi and Pete Seeger.[5] As he grew up in the Philippines and the United States, Ye was more fluent in English than Mandarin Chinese, which he spoke with a heavy Hokkien accent.