Qian Xuesen (December 11, 1911-October 31, 2009), Han nationality, was born in Shanghai, ancestral home in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, aerodynamicist, system scientist, one of the founders of engineering cybernetics, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, winner of the Meritorious Medal of Two Bombs and One Star, and the 33rd grandson of the King of Wuyue Qian.
1. Scientific research achievements
Qian Xuesen also has certain research on systems engineering, human science, thinking science and so on. On October 16, 1964, China’s first atomic bomb was successfully detonated. On June 17, 1967, China’s first hydrogen bomb was successfully tested for air explosion. On April 24, 1970, China’s first artificial satellite was successfully launched. In 1984, Qian Xuesen suggested to Gou Qingquan that physical mechanics should be extended to the engineering technology of atomic and molecular design. In the "Introduction to Interstellar Voyage" published in 1962, it was proposed to use a large aircraft equipped with a jet engine as the first-stage vehicle. Qian Xuesen"s most important contribution to system science is his development of system science and the methodology of open complex giant systems.
2. Family background
Qian Xuesen"s father, Qian Junfu, was an educator and expert in literature and history. He was the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education during the Nanjing National Government, and he was a librarian in the Central Museum of Literature and History after the founding of the People"s Republic of China. He was close friends with Lu Xun and Li Suizhi, and the three went to Japan to study together in 1902, and they shared the same bedroom in the same class.
3. Qian Xuesen has become one of the most outstanding representatives in the aerospace field in the 1940s, and has become one of the very few superstars in the scientific constellation of many disciplines in the 20th century; Qian Xuesen also contributed to the growth of New China. Among the inestimable contributions of the older generation of scientists, the most influential and outstanding outstanding representatives are the most representative national builders among the patriotic returnees of New China and the great people in the history of New China. the scientist.
