Qian Xuesen

Quotes

• “I do not plan to come back. I have no reason to come back.. I plan to do my best to help the Chinese people build up the nation to where they can live with dignity and happiness.”
• “An engineering science aims to organize the design principles used in engineering practice into a discipline and thus to exhibit the similarities between different areas of engineering practice and to emphasize the power of fundamental concepts. In short, an engineering science is predominated by theoretical analysis and very often uses the tool of advanced mathematics.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1911-12-11 ) December 11, 1911, Shanghai International Settlement

Died

October 31, 2009 (2009-10-31) (aged 97), Beijing , China

Alma mater

National Chiao Tung University ( BS ) Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MS ) California Institute of Technology ( PhD )

Known for

Co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Founder of engineering cybernetics Father of Chinese space program

Spouse

Jiang Ying ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 ) ​

Children

Qian Yonggang Qian Yungjen

Awards

Chinese Academy of Sciences Academician (1957) Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech (1979) Chinese Academy of Engineering Academician (1994) Two Bombs, One Satellite Merit Medal (1999)

Fields

Aerospace engineering Aeronautics Engineering cybernetics

Theses

Study of the turbulent boundary layer (1936) Problems in motion of compressible fluids and reaction propulsion (1939)

Doctoral advisor

Theodore von Kármán

Doctoral students

Cheng Che-Min (1952)

Traditional chinese

錢學森

Simplified chinese

钱学森

Hanyu pinyin

Qián Xuésēn

Wade giles

Chʻien Hsüeh -sen

Ipa

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Wikidata facts

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