Hsue-Chu Tsien

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Hsue-Chu Tsien,

aircraft building
in both China and afterward the United States.

Biography

H.C. Tsien (sitting row right) was in front of the China Motor Corporation together with his Chinese and American colleagues. Only Tsien was in military uniform. Tung Hua Lin was in the center of the sitting row.
China Motor Corp (different from the current China Motor Corporation in Taipei, Taiwan) was established during the World War II with American support, and it was the first Chinese factory of manufacturing jet engines. The Chinese title of the factory (中國發動機厰) was written (calligraphy) by the famous Chinese scholar Hu Shih.

Tsien was born in 1915 in Hangzhou, Republic of China. Tsien was a 33rd-generation descendant of Qian Liu, King of Wuyue. Specifically, his line was descended from King Qian Hongzong.[2] Tsien studied at Zhejiang Anding School (浙江安定學堂; now Hangzhou No.7 High School) and Hangzhou High School.[citation needed]

Tsien was admitted to the National Chekiang University (current Zhejiang University) in Hangzhou. In 1931 August, Tsien chose the National Chiao Tung University in Shanghai, and enrolled at the School of Mechanics. Tsien completed his internship at the National Central Aviation Academy (國立中央航空學校) at the Jianqiao Airfield in suburban Hangzhou.

Tsien graduated the top of 161 from the school of mechanics. Soon after graduation Tsien went to

Beiping (now Beijing) and became a teaching assistant at Tsinghua University
where he taught undergraduate courses for one year.

In August 1935, Tsien won the

aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the same year, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, Tsien continued staying in the United States and was in charge of importing plants for the Central Machinery Factory (中央機器厰) of the National Resources Commission for the war-time China. Based on the Allies
' agreement, those plants were used to support the battlefront of the war.

In 1938, Tsien went to work in

Guizhou Province
, the rear area and one of the logistic centers of China during the war.

In 1943, Tsien was sent to

Indochina route was the only open way that Allies can deliver supplies to China. Tsien also participated in the design and manufacture of vehicles and aircraft for battle and transport uses. Tsien was ranked Colonel of the Republic of China Air Force.[1] Tsien made contributions for Allies to the victory of the World War II East Asian battlefield.[3]

After the end of the Second World War, Tsien and his family settled in the United States. Due to the queasy atmosphere of the following Cold War and China's extreme turmoil, Tsien naturalized as an American citizen after 1949. Tsien worked in RCA Vacuum Tube Division and then Esso Research and Engineering.

In 1997, Tsien succumbed to cancer in California at age 82.[4]

Legend of Tsien's family

H.C. and H.S. Tsien

Tsien's cousin, the famous aerospace scientist and engineer

Caltech, which he received in 2001.[5] H.S., a senior academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering
, died in Beijing on October 31, 2009, at age 97.

Hsue-Chu Tsien and H.S. not only shared the same paternal grandfather, but also were schoolmates. They matriculated at the same university (Jiaotong University) and had the same major. H.S. was one year senior.

Both Tsiens won the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship and went to study in the United States in the 1930s, with H.S. went to USA in August 1934, and Hsue-Chu Tsien followed after one year (in August 1935). They became school mates again in the United States, both studied at MIT, but H.S. later transferred to

Caltech
.

During World War II, H.C. was given the

Lieutenant General of the People's Liberation Army; it was nominated by Zhou Enlai and approved by Chairman Mao Zedong.[7]

The science and engineering dynasty

Hsue-Chu Tsien married Yi-Ying Tsien (Née:

National Academy of Sciences
.

Hsue-Chu Tsien had three sons, the oldest

Institute of Medicine; the youngest - Roger Y. Tsien was a cell biologist who was the 2008 Nobel Chemistry Prize Laureate.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Biography of H. C. Tsien" (shtml) (in Chinese). Phoenix Television, Hong Kong. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
  2. ^ Sohu.com Culture: The history of Tsien family
  3. ^ Shanghai Jiao Tong University Archive: 1935 Alumni: Hsue-Chu Tsien
  4. ^ https://www.fold3.com/record/43644921/h-c-tsien-us-social-security-death-index
  5. CaltechNews (Volume 36, Number 1, 2002): Tsien Revisited Archived 2006-12-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Obituary - Tributes.com: Qian Xuesen 1911 - 2009
  7. Sina.com: Qian Xuesen's temporary military rank
  8. ^ Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
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