In the history of technology, Qian Xuesen is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Qian Xuesen as Chinese rocket scientist (1911-2009).
Qian Xuesen was born at Shanghai County in 1911. His recorded nationality is People's Republic of China. He was educated at Beijing No. 2 Experimental Primary School and Beijing First Experimental Primary School.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Qian Xuesen is described as astronautical engineer, engineer and university teacher.
His affiliations include California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
His recorded fields of work are aeronautics, aerodynamics and engineering cybernetics.
His work was formally recognised with the HLHL Science and Technology Achievement Award, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
That the work was done from People's Republic of China matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 2009, at 98. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Affiliated with California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology
- Educated at Beijing No. 2 Experimental Primary School, Beijing First Experimental Primary School and The High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University
- Worked as astronautical engineer, engineer and university teacher
