钱学森讣告.doc

钱学森,享年98岁,现代最伟大的中国籍科学家之一,被广泛认为是中国导弹及空间技术之父。他生于清朝末年,经历国民时期,后又伴随新中国共同走过60年风雨,其一生横跨近一个世纪。他也见证了中美两国之间的冲突。而他却不得不在这两个于他最为重要的两个国家中作出抉择。
Qian Xuesen, who has died aged 98, was one of the greatest Chinese scientists of the modern era, and a man widely regarded as the father of China's missile and space programme. His life spanned nearly a century, from the final few days of the Qing Dynasty, through the Republican period, from 1912 to 1949, and on to the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It also embodied the conflicts between the US and China, the two countries where he was to be based most of his life, and between which he was forced, finally, to choose.
钱学森原籍浙江杭州,生于官宦之家。他早年就读于上海交通大学,而后在1935年,获得奖学金,前往美国麻省理工学院深造。年后,在加州理工学院授获博士学位,并根植于是二十年。
Qian was the son of a government official, born in the city of Hangzhou in the coastal province of Zhejiang. He was educated at Shanghai Jiao tong University, and, in 1935, with the help of a scholarship, went first to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, and then, a year later, to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was to be awarded his doctorate, and be based for the next two decades.
钱学森在加州期间恰逢二次大战,其研究项目为喷气推进。当时德国已研发出V1、V2火箭,在同其他美国尖端科学家共事下,他研发出一种高效导弹,在战争后期发挥了巨大作用。钱学森还参与曼哈顿计划,研发了第一颗原子弹。基于以上成就,他于1949年担任加工理工学院丹尼尔和佛罗伦斯·古根海姆喷气推进中心(Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion C