Talk| Latest Research on Qian Xuesen by Dr. Zuoyue Wang

10/02/2019

Professor Zuoyue Wang from California State Polytechnic University was invited to report his latest research on Qian Xuesen from the perspective of scientific history on September 27.

His talk mainly focused on Qian Xuesen’s life and intricate relations with the US, how he returned to China and how he, together with his generation of scientists,trained in the US, helped shape the scientific landscape of the two nations.

 

Zuoyue Wang is a professor of history at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, specializing in science, technology, and politics in modern US, China, and transnational contexts. Born in China and originally trained in physics, he received his PhD from UC Santa Barbara and published In Sputnik’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America (Rutgers University Press, 2008; Chinese translation by Peking University Press in 2011). Professor Wang was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the section on history and philosophy of science in Novermber 2019.