In 1949, when the KMT government made its hurried retreat to Taiwan, there was not a single department of astronomy at a university or research institute anywhere on the island, and such astronomy-related research as was being done could only be found in physics departments.
民國三十八年，國府兵荒馬亂中來到台灣，沒有在大學院校與研究單位設任何天文系所，稱得上與天文相關的研究，只能在物理領域覓得蛛絲馬跡。