Eventually, he became Chief Astronomer, Prefect of the Majors for Official Carriages, and then Palace Attendant at the imperial court.

He was promoted to Chief Astronomer for the Han court under Emperor An, serving his first term from 115 – 120 and his second under the succeeding emperor from 126 – 132.

As Chief Astronomer, Zhang was a subordinate of the Minister of Ceremonies, the latter one of Nine Ministers ranked just below the Three Excellencies.

Despite this setback in his official career, Zhang was reappointed as Chief Astronomer in 126 after Emperor Shun of Han ( r. 125 – 144 ) ascended to the throne.

* Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director for the Franklin Institute.

He became Chief Astronomer at the Meudon Observatory in 1943 and received the Bruce Medal in 1947.

He first worked at the private Bothkamp Observatory, and starting in 1874 at the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory, being its Chief Astronomer at the time of his death.

Having been Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich from 1870 to 1881, he was appointed to replace George Airy as Astronomer Royal in 1881 and remained in office until 1910.

* The Ming Dynasty Chancellor of China, Chief Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng, imposes the Single Whip Reform, by which taxes are assessed on properties recorded in the land census and paid in silver as the accepted medium of exchange.

In the twenty-third year ( AD 735 ) of the reign-period K ' ai Yüan of the Emperor Hsüan Tsung of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Guo Lao was called to Lo-yang in Honan, and elected Chief of the Imperial Academy, with the honorable title of " Very Perspicacious Teacher ".

Other prominent figures that are speculated to be top figures in the 5th generation include CPC Organization Chief Li Yuanchao, Vice-Premier Wang Qishan, Chongqing Party Chief Zhang Dejiang, Shanghai Party Chief Yu Zhengsheng, Guangdong Party Chief Wang Yang, Tianjin Party Chief Zhang Gaoli, Head of Propaganda Department Liu Yunshan, State Councilor Liu Yandong.

When Mao's 1st Red Army later united with Zhang Guotao ’ s 4th Red Army, Liu stayed Chief of Staff.

Others in the bottom seven, in order from least popular, were Li Changchun ( CPC propaganda chief ), Zhang Gaoli ( then Shandong Party Chief ), Jia Qinglin ( CPPCC Chairman ), Xi Jinping ( then Zhejiang Party chief ), Li Yizhong, and Chen Zhili ( made State Councilor ).

He served as Chief of Staff of Zhang Guotao's Fourth Front Army.

After the congress, Zhang held the position of Director of Secretariat of the China Labor Union and Chief Editor of Labor Weekly, from which he became an expert in labor unions and mobilization.

Front row, from left: Yu Zhishan ( 于芷山 ), Minister of military affairs ; Xie Jieshi ( 谢介石 ), Ambassador to Japan ; Xi Qia, Chief of imperial household agency ; Zhang Jinghui, Prime Minister ; Zang Shiyi, President of the senate ; Lü Ronghuan ( 吕荣寰 ), Minister of civil affairs ; Ding Jianxiu ( 丁鉴修 ), Minister of industry.

* Chief of Zhang County ( 漳縣長 )

Deng Xiaoping was appointed Chief of the General Staff, while Gang of Four member Zhang Chunqiao was appointed director of the General Political Department.

The ACT Liberal opposition wants the Chief Minister to use his Chinese contacts to bring Zhang to ' justice '.

* Shi Ming Yi ( born Goh Kah Heng ), Buddhist monk and former Chief Executive Officer of Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre.

After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.

Round 10, 2005 saw St Kilda and its Coleman Medal-winning full-forward, Fraser Gehrig, claim more revenge for its defeat to Sydney in the corresponding fixture the previous season, winning by 43 points, 15. 11 ( 101 ) to Sydney's 8. 10 ( 58 ), after which the Swans earned the ire of the media and the AFL Chief Executive, Andrew Demetriou, for their game plan in the match.

In 2012, the installation was honored as the best Air Force base in the world when it collectively earned the Commander-In Chief ( CINC ) Installation Excellence Award, beating out 161 USAF installations eligible for honors.

Crawford's successful run as Chief Dan Mathews in Highway Patrol earned him some two million dollars under his contract with ZIV, who eventually paid him in exchange for Crawford's agreement to sign for the pilot and subsequent production of a new ZIV production, King of Diamonds.

His control over the band in its early years earned him the nickname " The Chief ".

His popularity with the people and his ability to keep the peace earned him the appointment of Chief Justice of South Wales.

In 1973, he received his first political appointment as the Chief Prosecutor of South Dakota and " quickly earned a reputation as a top trial lawyer ".

In honour of Che-wech-i-kan's discovery, he earned the name Coal Tyee, meaning Great Coal Chief and McKay Point was named for Joseph McKay because of all the work he did for the island.

Sadegh Khalkhali ()( July 27, 1926 – November 26, 2003 ) was a hardline Shia cleric of the Islamic Republic of Iran who is said to have " brought to his job as Chief Justice of the revolutionary courts a relish for summary execution " that earned him a reputation as Iran's " hanging judge ".

Hawley earned his 6, 450th official career victory with a win aboard Tribal Chief, a horse owned by musician / record producer Herb Alpert and his brother David Alpert.

As Chief of the SADF he implemented many administrative changes that earned him great respect in military circles.

As Secretary of the Monday Club Northern Ireland Policy Committee, he backed calls from Ulster Unionist MPs for Mrs Thatcher to implement her 1979 Conservative General Manifesto commitment to " establish one or more elected regional councils in Northern Ireland with a wide range of powers over local services " in place of the 1982-86 Northern Ireland Assembly, and opposed the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which earned him the admiration and support of the then Ulster Unionist Party Leader Jim ( now Lord ) Molyneaux and the then Ulster Unionist Chief Whip and MP for East Londonderry, Willie Ross.

In the mid-1990s, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Mike Boorda, granted the title ( FMF ) to enlisted personnel who had earned the ribbon, e. g., HM2 ( FMF ) John Smith, USN.

However, his protests produced no condemnations of such behavior, and merely earned him the enmity of Hans Frank, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, and Adolf Hitler, while Chief of Staff Alfred Jodl dismissed them as naive and " uncalled for ".

Kostin ’ s career as an amateur photographer earned him more than twice the amount of salary than his career as Chief of Construction in the Construction Bureau of Kiev.

Though he retired in the grade of Master Sergeant ( E-8 ), his retirement pay was calculated using the pay rate he earned during his tenure as SMA, in accordance with 10 USC § 1406 ( i )( 1 ) which dictated that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, commanders of unified combatant commands, and the senior enlisted member of each service ( SMA, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, and Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ) calculate their retired pay at no less than the pay held while serving in one of the aforementioned positions.

He was best known for playing White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the NBC political drama series The West Wing, which earned him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2002.

In the 1970s, the townspeople of Günzburg earned the attention of the Chief Public Prosecutor of the Federal Republic of Germany and that of the world community when Mengele ( at that time the most wanted Nazi war criminal in the world ) returned there from Paraguay in order to attend his father's funeral and stayed in the town for six weeks without having been reported to authorities.

Hardy was self-taught and used a Leica — unconventional gear for press photographers of the era — but went on to become the Posts Chief Photographer, after he earned its first photographer credit for his 1 February 1941 photo-essay about Blitz-stressed fire-fighters.

The resulting spike in the company's bottom-line financials earned him awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript ( 1980 ) and Financial World ( 1981 ).

After the Revolutionary War, Wickham earned a degree in law from the College of William and Mary, where he became a close friend of John Marshall, later fourth Chief Justice of the U. S .. Wickham moved to Richmond and experienced tremendous financial success helping British merchants collect debts from American businessmen.

In the ROK Navy, warrant officers are mostly former non-commissioned officers who had earned the rating of Wonsa ( Master Chief Petty Officer ) and who had been selected for and completed a warrant officer candidate program.