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Tsien Hsue-shen

December 11, 1911 (1911-12-11) (age 95) Hangzhou, China
Co-founder, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Tsien Hsue-shen (born December 11, 1911) is a scientist who was a major figure in the missile and space programs of both the United States and People's Republic of China. NASA documents commonly refer to him as H.S. Tsien.

Tsien was a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, and became the "Father of Chinese Rocketry" (or "King of Rocketry") when he returned to China after being wrongly accused of being a communist by the United States government during the red scare of the 1950s.

Asteroid 3763 Qianxuesen was named after him.

Early life and education

Tsien Hsue-shen was born in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. He left Hangzhou at the age of three when his father obtai