Prof. Qian Xuesen
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Qian Xuesen (钱学森; 11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009; also spelled as Hsue-shen Tsien) was a Chinese aerospace engineer and cyberneticist who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and established engineering cybernetics. He achieved recognition as one of America's leading experts in rockets and high-speed flight ...
Tsien Hsue-shen (Qian Xuesen), was the father of Chinese rocketry and spaceflight. A pre-eminent rocket scientist in America, he was driven from the country during the Red Scare of the 1950's. He single-handedly built a national space and rocketry program from the technology base of an agrarian society.
Qian Xuesen (Tsien Hsue-Shen) was a prominent Chinese aerodynamicist and cyberneticist who contributed to rocket science and established engineering cybernetics. Recruited from MIT, he joined Theodore von Kármán’s group at Caltech’s Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, including the founding team of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dec 9, 2009 · Perhaps no one better embodies the irony of the cold-war era than Qian Xuesen, also known as Tsien Hsue-shen, the Chinese rocket scientist who died on 31 October at the age of 97.
Mar 28, 2019 · Perhaps the most representative case is that of Hsue-Shen Tsien (also rendered as Qian Xuesen), a Beijing-raised, California-trained scientist who co-founded NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL ...
Jun 16, 2022 · Tsien Hsue-shen. 10.1-10 Tsien's talent was recognized during his student years at Jiaotong University in Shanghai. He came to the United States in 1935, first to study engineering at MIT, then to complete his graduate work in aeronautics at Caltech.
Mar 18, 2014 · The landmark book of Hsue-Shen Tsien, ‘Engineering Cybernetics’, gave birth 60 years ago to an engineering science of interrelations and synthetic behaviors.
