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	Tsien Hsue-shen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tsien Hsue-shen was born in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.
		Tsien Hsue-shen was sent by the Army to Germany and was part of the team that examined captured German V-2 rockets.
		Tsien was a director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and became the "Father of Chinese Rocketry" (or "King of Rocketry") when he returned to China after being accused of being a communist by the United States government during the red scare of the 1950s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tsien_Hsue-shen (955 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Tsien Hsue-Shen
		The scientist's name was Tsien Hsue-shen, he was a distinguished professor at the California Institute of Technology, and he was kept under house arrest for five years before being deported to China under a thick cloud of suspicion.
		Tsien, also known as Qian Xuesen, was born in China in 1911, the son of a scholarly Shanghai family.
		Tsien became one of the leading rocket scientists in the United States, helping lay the groundwork for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and conducting critical research during America's early entry into the space age.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Hsue-Shen_Tsien_17135992.htm (901 words)

	Tsien, Hsue-Shen (1909-)
		At Caltech, Tsien was a protégé of Theodore von Kármán and a member of a group of students, known as the “Suicide Squad,” who rocketry experiments were considered so hazardous they were banished to desert arroyos.
		In 1950, at the start of the McCarthy era, Tsien was falsely accused of communist activities and for the next five years subjected to harassment and virtual house arrest before being deported to the People’s Republic of China.
		Raised in Hang-zhou, a provincial capital in east China, Tsien was a precocious student who won a scholarship to study engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then, in 1939, received a Ph.D. in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/T/Tsien.html (297 words)

	The forgotten 'spy' case of a rocket scientist
		In his heyday, Tsien Hsue-shen was one of the most famous people in China, appearing on podiums with Mao, and today the Beijing leadership still occasionally calls on him to lend his prestige to their purposes.
		Tsien Hsue-shen grew up in Hang-zhou, a provincial capital in east China, in the early years of the 20th century.
		Tsien is the father of China's ballistic-missile force, noted the report.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/2000/11/irp-001107-whl.htm (1549 words)

	Early days.
		Tsien Hsue-shen was one of America`s most respected rocket scientists before he was ordered to leave in 1955.
	www.orlandosentinel.com /news/custom/space/orl-spacephot121101,1,1144162.photo (18 words)

	HHMI Bulletin: Cells Aglow
		His father's cousin Tsien Hsue-Shen was a rocket scientist and professor at the California Institute of Technology until he was accused in 1950 of being a Communist.
		Although Tsien was instrumental in helping to make GFP the incredibly useful molecular-biology tool it is today, he is conscious that nature made the protein in the first place and that he played what he considers the relatively minor role of tuning it up for research.
		Tsien is renowned for having created colorful dyes to track the movement of calcium within live cells—and without having to poke holes in them, the traditional way to do such tracking.
	www.hhmi.org /bulletin/summer2004/tsien/tsien2.html (2879 words)

	Tsien Revisited
		Tsien is now permanently confined to bed, so Marble made the formal presentation at his bedside in a ceremony that received widespread coverage in China, and at last provided a fitting coda to Tsien’s long, complicated, and never completely sundered association with Caltech.
		Tsien repeatedly said he did not want them back, telling Marble at their 1981 reunion, “Frank, American students need them much more than Chinese students.” A decade or so ago, however, he had a change of heart, and, with the help of Tsien’s colleague Cheng Che-Min, PhD ’52, Marble returned the collection to China.
		Tsien, of course, became a high-ranking, trusted Party official, but it was evident that he had had trouble during the Cultural Revolution.
	pr.caltech.edu /periodicals/CaltechNews/articles/v36/tsien.html (2303 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Thread of the Silkworm
		Although Tsien was to spend a fraction of his childhood in Hangzhou during the 1910s, the city-or rather, his family's ancient heritage there-was to shape and define his life for years to come.
		In one room, Tsien's parents slept in a bed that was, in the words of one relative, "like a small house." Over the bed arched a blue silk canopy, and along its frame hung silk curtains delicately embroidered with red lotus flowers.
		In the tenth century, the Wuyue emperor Qian Liu, from whom Tsien was directly descended, deepened and dredged the lake.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/thread_o.htm (2381 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Hsue-Shen Tsien
		Tsien was Vice-Minister of the Commission of Science and Technology for National Defense, prior to his present government positions.
		Tsien was elected and inducted into the World Level of the Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology.
		Tsien remained at CIT and became head of the Supersonic Research Lab.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Tsien_Hsue-Shen_198455781.htm (386 words)

	Tsien Hsue-shen - expelled from the US because of his ethnicity
		Tsien Hsue-shen - expelled from the US because of his ethnicity
		Tsien was representing the U.S. Government for acceptance of all missiles and related designs from Germany after the World War II.
		Tsien made the decision to become a US Citizen in 1949, but was swept up in McCarthyism in 1950.
	www.art-teez.org /artists/essays/dl1_ess1.htm (785 words)

	Thread of the Silkworm
		Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen was as important a figure to the birth of the space age as Alan Turing was to the birth of the computer age.
		Tsien Hsue-Shen deserves a place beside Sergei Korolev and Wernher von Braun in the pantheon of rocketry.
		Tsien's story made headlines around the world and continues to tantalize the scientific community.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0786114185 (627 words)

	US Drove Out Founder of China's Rocketry Program
		Tsien Hsue-shen, 92, was a U.S. Army officer, a co-founder of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Tsien, whose name also is written Qian Xuesen or Tsien Hsue-sen, led development of China's first nuclear-armed ballistic missiles and worked on its first satellite, launched in 1970.
		Tsien denied being a communist, but he was briefly arrested and lost his security clearance.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/1015-03.htm (798 words)

	CHINA'S NEW FRONTIER: U.S. threw out man who put China in space
		Tsien -- whose given name, Hsue-shen, means "study to be wise" -- was a natural, one of those students who always instantly got it.
		Tsien's stated desire was to return to China for a short visit, but he also gave indications of wanting to return for good.
		Nevertheless, immigration officials ruled Tsien had lied on the immigration form when he re-entered the country in 1947 and was a communist subject to expulsion.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/588105/posts (3766 words)

	[FPSPACE] Recent News on Tsien Hsue-Shen
		I forget where she got most of her research, although she did have some signifi- cant government documentation (possibley Tsien's Army file, since he worked for Jet Propulsion Lab, which was then a US Army laboratory).
		Many years ago, when that little blurb "The allegations against Tsien are believed to be true" appeared in the Cox report.
		I'm not sure what their objection to releasing it is, although it is possibly because he is still alive (they do consider privacy issues important, even for people that they don't like).
	www.friends-partners.org /pipermail/fpspace/2003-March/008269.html (746 words)

	China's Taikonauts Fulfil Tsien's Vision
		Tsien was a member of the first heroic generation of U.S. rocket scientists and space visionaries.
		Tsien retired in 1991, a year before Jiang gave the go ahead for a long-term program to finally put a Chinese astronaut, or taikonaut, into the heavens.
		And Tsien's master plan was taken straight from the one Werner Von Braun and his colleagues had pressed - in vain - on U.S. leaders through the 1950s.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/china-05zzzzzzzzzi.html (1128 words)

	Later years.
		Tsien Hsue-shen, in a Chinese military uniform, is regarded as the father of China`s space program.
	www.orlandosentinel.com /news/custom/space/orl-sp-oldest121101,0,243895.photo (16 words)

	Iris Chang - The Official Iris Chang Website - Author of Rape of Nanking
		“Tsien Hsue-shen, the father of the Chinese missile and space program, deserves a place beside Sergei Korolev and Wernher von Braun in the pantheon of rocketry.
		The full life of Tsien Hsue-shen, never told before, takes the reader through the missile age, from its beginning to the present.
		She reveals Dr. Tsien as a twentieth century genius, standing astride both the rocket and the military technology of the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
	www.irischang.net /press_article.cfm?n=12 (911 words)

	Silkworm missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Silkworm was developed at the Institute of Mechanics under Tsien Hsue-shen, a Chinese-American scientist who fled the United States in 1955 after being suspected of Communist ties.
		The Silkworm gained fame in the 1980s when it was used by both sides in the Iran-Iraq War; both countries were supplied by China.
		They can be launched from semi-mobile (towed) launchers or from ships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silkworm_missile (328 words)

	Amazon.ca: Thread of the Silkworm: Books
		This biography of Chinese-born Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen delineates his life as a preeminent American space scientist who was accused of being a Communist, put under house arrest, and eventually deported to China, where he directed the development of the Silkworm missiles.
		"Thread of Silkworm" told a fascinating story of a Chinese scientist, Tsien Hsue-Shen, educated in U. with great contribution in U. rocketry, was falsely accused as a communist and deported back to China in 1950's.
		Tsien's incredible life is the story of one of the greatest blunders ever made by the U.S. government.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0465087167 (1112 words)

	[FPSPACE] Recent News on Tsien Hsue-Shen
		Tsien Hsue-Shen, now spelt Qian Xuessen (the pronunciation has not changed) was the son of a fiercely anti-communist KMT officer, and married the daughter of similar anti-communists.
		He apparently hoped to be offered the vice-chancellorship of a university in the 2nd last yr.
	www.friends-partners.org /pipermail/fpspace/2003-March/008270.html (198 words)

	Secrecy and Government Bulletin, Issue 79
		Tsien was a Chinese student who received a scholarship in 1935 to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Tsien's security clearance had been revoked five years earlier, in June 1950, and he was deported from the United States in September 1955.
		For example, the assertion that Tsien worked on the Titan ICBM program is evidently in error since "the contract for the Titan I was not even let until October 1955," according to Mark Wade of the online Encyclopedia Astronautica.
	www.fas.org /sgp/bulletin/sec79.html (1896 words)

	TSIEN HSUE-SHEN, all Chinese should thank him - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Now, have Tsien stayed in the US, he would have produced many important and revolutionary scientific theories and invention, on par with some of the greatest scientists in history.
		If the US had somehow prevented Tsien from going and contributing to China, China would not possibly have become a major power in less than half a century.
		There's only one book written about him (and it's not a very good one because Tsien refused to give interviews for the writer): Thread of the Silkworm, written by Iris Chang.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=55675 (1067 words)

	‘Rape of Nanking’ Author Denounces Cox Report
		The report alleges that Tsien -- a former professor of aeronautical engineering at MIT and Cal Tech, and a founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Pasadena -- was a spy.
		Nonetheless, in 1955, Tsien was deported to China in a negotiated exchange for American pilots shot down by the Chinese during the Korean War.
		Although Tsien was never a naturalized U.S. citizen, in 1949, shortly before his troubles with the U.S. government, he had applied for U.S. citizenship.
	www.asianweek.com /060399/news_irishchang.html (773 words)

	Resource Links on Qian Xuesen (Tsien Hsue-shen, 钱学森 )
		Tsien Hsue-shen was regarded by 1949 as Von Karman's peer and probable successor", according to this Los Angeles Times article on Malina and JPL.
		Tsien, Mark Wade's biographical sketch and chronology of Qian Xuesen, who "single-handedly built a national space and rocketry program from the technology base of an agrarian society".
		The Cox Committee and the Tsien Case, commentary written by Steven Aftergood in Secrecy and Government Bulletin published by the Federation of American Scientists.
	www.gateway2china.com /report/qian.htm (836 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Rockets Up & Down -- Dec. 12, 1949
		Last week a Manhattan meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering.
		Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting.
		But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,854050,00.html (135 words)

	Re: Tsien Hsue-shen: spy or hero?
		> > Tsien Hsue-shen (Qian Xuesen) was a space age pioneer > working on U.S. missile systems when he was accused of > being a communist and suspected of being a spy for > People's Republic of China.
		> > There is a book about Tsien Hsue-shen, > Thread of the Silkworm - http://www.qianxuesen.com/ > or this one - http://www.threadofthesilkworm.com/ > > I just can't make up my mind.
		Is Tsien a hero, or > somebody that should be condemned?
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/soc.culture.china/msg02358.html (249 words)

	Bay Area Media Review Number4
		Tsien Hsue-shen (Qian Xuesen) lives in Beijing now according to Iris Chang and is in his eighties.
		Chang's earlier book, Thread of the Silkworm, told how U.S. missile scientist Tsien Hsue-shen was accused of being a communist by U.S. authorities, and deported back to his native China.
		Tsien went on to become the father of modern Chinese missile science, designing the Silkworm missile.
	vikingphoenix.com /public/rongstad/news/bamr/bamr0004.htm (1741 words)

	Iris Chang's Biography - The Official Iris Chang Website
		The imprisonment of Tsien Hsue-shen during the height of the McCarthy era has been compared to U.S. mistreatment of Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos scientist accused of passing secret nuclear data to mainland China.
		Born in China, educated at M.I.T. and Cal Tech, Tsien became a professor at both universities and a brilliant space age pioneer.
		Stories about Chang's grandparents' harrowing escape were part of her family legacy and prompted her to embark on this ambitious project, for which she interviewed elderly survivors of the massacre and discovered thousands of rare documents in four different languages.
	www.irischang.net /biography.cfm (534 words)

	China The saga of Tsien Hsue-shen StrategyPage.com
		Tsien was a Chinese student who came to American in the 1930s.
		RE:the world has moved on to the point that issue is not an issue any more
		For more data, see Thread of the Silkworm by Iris Chang.
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/69-7999.asp (2416 words)

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