Qian xuesen, wadegiles romanization chien hsuehsen, also spelled tsien hsueshen, born december 11, 1911, shanghai, chinadied october 31, 2009, beijing, chinese engineer and research scientist widely recognized as the father of chinese aerospace for his role in establishing chinas ballistic missile program qian was the only child of an aristocratic hangzhou family whose. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Germanys v1 and v2 rockets forced caltech to accelerate its work, and the jet propulsion laboratory was established with qian as a section. Qian xuesen studied at mit and then joined the manhattan project, the top secret us atomic bomb program. Release dates 1 also known as aka 0 release dates china 2 march 2012. He was the pioneer of chinese astronautical technology and known as the father of chinese aerospace and king of rocketry. Google results for qian xuesen are three times as numerous as hsueshen tsien. Qian xuesen, who died in beijing on october 31 aged 97, was the father of chinas missile and space programmes, transforming the country from a primitive technological backwater to. He earned a mechanical engineering degree in 1934 in shanghai. Qian xuesen often called the father of chinas space and missile programs has died. Caltech professor qian xuesen endures five years of mccarthyera investigations before returning to china to become the father of the countrys space program.
December 11, 1911 october 31, 2009 was a chinese scientist and pioneer for engineering cybernetics, who made important contributions to the missile and space programs of both the united states and peoples republic of china. Qian xuesen and his coauthors, which published between 19381956 when he was studying and working in the united states as a graduate student, scientist and professor, when aeronautic exploration stepped up from low speed to high speed regimes and astronautic. Qian xuesen, who has died aged 98, was one of the greatest chinese scientists of the modern era, and a man widely regarded as the father of chinas missile and space programme. Hello fellow wikipedians, i have just modified one external link on qian xuesen. Qian was a more complicated figure in the development of chinas space program than mere partrimony suggests.
A story that qian xuesen told chinese space engineers. Qian xuesen helped launch chinas missile program after his career in the u. Qian xuesens cultural design and the development of engineering science at the university of science and technology of china. Qian was also present as china emerged as a growing economic power, thanks to deng xiaopings policy of reform and opening. Perhaps no one better embodies the irony of the coldwar era than qian xuesen, also known as. Remembering a former caltech rocket scientist and the. When premier wen jiabao visit chinese famous scientist qian xuesen, qian put forward the famous qian xuesen asking,which once again push chinses educational reform and development issues into a cusp. Qian xuesen library open to commemorate the centennial birth anniversary of qian xuesen. Chinese president calls on nation to learn from scientist qian xuesen. Chineseborn scientist hsueshen tsien xuesen qian is regarded as the father of systems engineering in china. Qian xuesen was the group leader, with zhao jiuzhang and wei yiqing as assistant group leaders. Qian xuesen, a top chinese scientist who made important contributions to the missile and space programs of both the united states and the peoples republic of china, died in beijing on october 31. Later, during the mccarthy era, qian was kicked out of the country after being implicated.
Perhaps no one better embodies the irony of the coldwar era than qian xuesen, also known as tsien hsueshen, the chinese rocket scientist who died on 31. Yan, shibo and zeng, xuesen and long, andrew 2019 mesoscale modelling of 3d woven composite tjoints with weave variations. Controversial scientist qian xuesen china uncensored. According to the information available by the author,most of the media and academics overwhelmingly support qianlaos questions to launch an attack to the existing education system. Qian xuesen was twentyfour years old in 1935, a fresh graduate of shanghai jiaotong university, when he used a scholarship to get to m. Bio of chinas father of space technology published. The rise of systems engineering in china science aaas. The model of spacecraft shenzhou 1 in qian xuesen libraryphotos above by du xin, sjtu. This photo has been shown 886 times since it was added to the site. Army, he returned to china in the 1950s, after he had been expelled from the u.
Remembering a former caltech rocket scientist and the founder of chinas space program. Qian xuesen was born in 1911, as the chinese imperial government was collapsing, in hangzhou, in eastern china. Chinas peoples publishing house on tuesday released the official biography of qian xuesen, the late scientist widely regarded as the countrys father of space technology. Qian xuesens cultural design and the development of. Story of wan hu the first astronaut in the world paviavio. The late iris chang wrote a wonderful biography of qian, thread of the silkworm, which i heartily recommend. They were reunited and married in shanghai after the war during 1947 when qian xuesen took a break from mit to visit relatives.
What do americans and mainland chinese think about qian. Qian xuesen and jiang yings first encounter started with her mother sending her to live with qian xuesens family when she was 4 and he was 12. Qian served on the united states governments science advisory board during world war ii. The name he used while in the united states was hsueshen tsien, or h. With kun chen, yuqi zhang, georg anton, steve boergadine. I am particularly interested in random two dimensional objects such as the brownian loopsoup, schrammloewner evolution, conformal loop ensemble, gaussian free field, liouville quantum gravity, brownian map and so on. Think tank chinese blogger qian xuesen played an important role in communist chinas science and politics.
My research interests lie in probability theory and statistical physics. Inspired by the theories of hsueshen tsien also known as xuesen qian, founder of the chinese school of systems engineering and one of. Assoc prof xuesen zeng university of southern queensland. A year later, he moved to caltech to earn his doctorate. He served as chinas foreign minister from april 1988 to march 1998, and as vice premier from 1993 to 2003. A ustrained scientist was deported, then became the. Til qian xuesen, one of the founders of the jet propulsion laboratory at the california institute of technology, was deemed a communist sympathizer in 1950 and deported to china.
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