中国顶级科学家钱学森去世了.docVIP

中国顶级科学家钱学森去世了，不少悼念文章还是老调重弹，称颂他当年一腔赤子之情，放弃在美国的优厚待遇和良好条件，毅然回国参加新中国的建设， 美国官员很后悔钱老回国，说宁愿枪毙了他，因为他可以顶5个师，云云。于是想到去年钱老的堂侄钱永健获得诺贝尔奖后谈到钱学森时说的一段似乎透着不屑的 话： “My fathers cousin was quite a famous engineer (H.S. Tsien). He was the head of the ballistic missile program for the Peoples Republic. Its actually a strange tale. He was at Cal Tech as an aeronautical engineer, but then got in trouble in the 1950s because he had some communist links in his past. He was put under house arrest and then deported. Back in China, he started up the ballistics program, I guess partly because he