2. Qian Xuesen (19112,1-2009,10,31), Han nationality.
3. Qian Xuesen 1934 graduated from department of mechanical engineering, Jiaotong University; From 65438 to 0935, he went to the United States for further study at boxer indemnity's expense for the seventh time. From 65438 to 0936, he graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then transferred to the Aviation Department of California Institute of Technology, where he studied under Theodore von Kármán. In 1939, he received his Ph.D. degree in aviation and mathematics from California Institute of Technology, and then stayed in school to teach.
4. 1945 was sent to Germany to inspect Nazi German rocket technology; 1955, under the struggle between Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou Enlai, many American pilots captured in the Korean War were exchanged back to China; 1956, became the first director of the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 1957 became the first president of the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, and was elected as an academician of China Academy of Sciences in the same year; From 65438 to 0958, he founded the Department of Modern Mechanics of the Chinese University of Science and Technology and became the first director.
5.65438-0959 Joined the Communist Party of China (CPC); 1984 was elected as the executive chairman of the presidium of China Academy of Sciences; 1986 was elected as the chairman of the Third National Committee of China Association for Science and Technology; 1986 to 1998, vice-chairman of the 6th, 7th and 8th National Committee of China People's Political Consultative Conference; 1999 was awarded the meritorious medal of two bombs and one star; June 2009: 365438+ 10 died in Beijing at the age of 98.