Qian Sanqiang
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Qian Sanqiang (1913-1992), a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China, went to France to study in 1937, returning in 1948. In 1954 he joined the Communist Party of China. He served successively as Director of the Institute of Modern Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice-Minister of the No. 2 Ministry of the Machine-building Industry, Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and honorary Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology. Qian made outstanding contributions to the establishment of nuclear science in the People's Republic of China and to the development of PRC's atomic and hydrogen bombs.
See also: Qian Xuantong