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1、Look ,Did you know him?film Shen zhou tian gongChenjianbin act qian xuesenXue sen Qian Early life Qian Xuesen (Tsien Hsue-shen)BornDecember 11, 1911Hangzhou, ChinaDiedOctober 31, 2009 (aged 97)Beijing, ChinaFieldsAeronauticsInstitutionsCalifornia Institute of TechnologyAlma materNational Chiao Tung

2、UniversityMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of TechnologyDoctoral advisorTheodore von KrmnKnown forJet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)experience Qian Xuesen was born in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province. He left Hangzhou at the age of three, when his father obtained a po

3、st in the Ministry of Education in Beijing. Qian graduated from jiaotongUniversity in Shanghai in 1934 and received a degree in mechanical engineering, with an emphasis on railroad administration; he then spent an internship at Nanchang Air Force Base. In August 1935 Qian left China on a Boxer Rebel

4、lion Indemnity Scholarship to study mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a Master of Science degree from MIT a year later.Excited Shenzhou VIII Chinas unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 successfully docked with the lab module Tiangong-1 early Thursday Career in

5、the United Statesaircraft In 1943, Qian and two others in the Caltech rocketry group drafted the first document to use the name Jet Propulsion Laboratory; it was a proposal to the Army for developing missiles in response to Germanys V-2 rocket. This led to the Private A,民兵, which flew in 1944, and l

6、ater the Corporal, the WAC Corporal, and other designs.No one then knew that the father of the future U.S. space program was being quizzed by the father of the future Chinese space program.exampleThe loss ofThe United Stateshe USs loss (one of Qians colleagues in the 1930s had called Qian a scientis

7、t of genius) was Chinas gain, at a critical period in its development. Qian was immediately allowed to establish an Institute of Mechanics in Beijing, and to work within the state-established Chinese Academy of Science. His skills and knowledge were absolutely critical at a time when many of Chinas

8、most talented scientists had refused to return home because of the political changes that had taken place there. A symbol of the respect and trust Qian enjoyed was his admission to the Communist party in 1958. He started work on what was to become the Dongfeng missile. Return to China In 1956, based

9、 on Qians position paper on the countrys defense and aviation industry, the central government set up an aviation industry committee, which later became the leading organization for Chinas missile and aviation programs.Under the guidance of Qian, also known as Tsien Hsue-shen, China finished the blu

10、eprint on developing jet and rocket technology. He also played a significant role in developing the countrys first artificial earth satellite.guided missile After World War II he served under von Krmn as a consultant to the United States Army Air Force, and commissioned with the assimilated rank of

11、colonel. Von Krmn and Tsien both were sent by the Army to Germany to investigate the progress of wartime aerodynamics research. Qian investigated research facilities and interviewed German scientists including Wernher von Braun and Rudolph Hermann. Von Krmn wrote of Qian, “At the age of 36, he was a

12、n undisputed genius whose work was providing an enormous impetus to advances in high-speed aerodynamics and jet propulsion.”2 The American journal Aviation Week & Space Technology would name Qian its Person of the Year in 2007, and comment on his interrogation of von Braun |In 2008, he was named Avi

13、ation Week and Space Technology Person of the Year. This selection is not intended as an honour but is given to the person judged to have the greatest impact on aviation in the past year.215|In 2008, China Central Television named Qian as one of the eleven most inspiring people in China.16 He died a

14、t the age of 97 on October 31, 2009 in Beijing.1718|In July 2009, the Omega Alpha Association named Qian (H. S. Tsien) one of four Honorary Members in the international systems engineering honor society.| On October 31, 2009 Chinas key stone space scientist Qian Xuesen, widely acclaimed as the count

15、rys father of space technology and king of rocketry, died of illness in Beijing at the age of 98. olderspace exploration plan In 2009, as China is preparing to build a space exploration launch pad on the island of Hainan, and has set itself the aim of getting a Chinese man on the moon in the next de

16、cade, Qians contribution to Chinas space and missile programme should not be underestimated. Much of the technology behind the Shenzhou rockets, launched into space from the 1990s onwards to much national fanfare, can be traced back to research that Qian undertook. And much of that was based on what

17、 he had studied in the US during his 20 years there.The influencedongfeng guided missile |As a result both of his work, and of support from the Soviet Union (despite the fact that relations between these two countries had deteriorated badly in the late 1950s), China was able to test its own atomic bomb in 1963-64. A mere 15 years after its founding, it had joined the elite nuclear club. This was a semin