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| '''The life, and contributions of Xuesen Qian''' ''Work by Shizhe Chen on 12/3/2015''
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| ==Personal Life==
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| Qian Xuesen was born in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province. He left Hangzhou at the age of three, when his father obtained a post in the Ministry of Education in Beijing. Qian graduated from jiaotongUniversity in Shanghai in 1934 and received a degree in mechanical engineering, with an emphasis on railroad administration; he then spent an internship at Nanchang Air Force Base. In August 1935 Qian left China on a Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship to study mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a Master of Science degree from MIT a year later
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