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Qian Xuesen

1911 - 2009

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Qian Xuesen (Chinese: 钱学森; December 11, 1911 – October 31, 2009; also spelled as Tsien Hsue-shen) 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 theory prior to his returning to China in 1955. Qian received his undergraduate education in mechanical engineering at National Chiao Tung University in Shanghai in 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Qian Xuesen has received more than 1,220,097 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Qian Xuesen is the 296th most popular physicist (up from 320th in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from China (up from 413th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Chinese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Qian Xuesen ranks 296 out of 851. Before him are Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, Friedrich Hund, Anne L'Huillier, Nevill Francis Mott, and Pascual Jordan. After him are Giovanni Battista Venturi, Armen Sarkissian, John Tyndall, George Smoot, William Daniel Phillips, and Freeman Dyson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Qian Xuesen ranks 59. Before him are Samuel Reshevsky, Robert Taylor, Mahalia Jackson, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Alfred Naujocks, and Karel Čurda. After him are Bernard Herrmann, Lee Yoo-hyung, Akira Yoshizawa, Nicholas Ray, Dieter Wisliceny, and Stanisława Walasiewicz. Among people deceased in 2009, Qian Xuesen ranks 45. Before him are Hussein-Ali Montazeri, John Updike, Amin al-Hafiz, Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, Norman Borlaug, and Ertuğrul Osman. After him are Rafael Caldera, Albert Barillé, Patrick McGoohan, Natasha Richardson, Pavel Popovich, and Sergey Mikhalkov.

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In China

Among people born in China, Qian Xuesen ranks 340 out of 1,610. Before him are Zhu Wen (852), Empress Dowager Ci'an (1837), Meng Haoran (690), Yelü Chucai (1189), Wei Zhongxian (1568), and Yu Jin (200). After him are Meng Huo (101), Duan Qirui (1865), Zhiyi (538), Marquis of Haihun (-92), Huo Qubing (-140), and Ren Zhengfei (1944).

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Among PHYSICISTS In China

Among physicists born in China, Qian Xuesen ranks 5. Before him are Walter Houser Brattain (1902), Yang Chen-Ning (1922), Tsung-Dao Lee (1926), and Chien-Shiung Wu (1912). After him are Daniel C. Tsui (1939), and He Jiankui (1984).

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