Qian Sanqiang

[1][2] Coincidentally, China's first atomic bomb test was conducted on Qian's 51st birthday.

[1] Qian returned to China in 1948 with his wife, the nuclear physicist He Zehui,[2] where he took up a professorship at the Tsinghua University and in 1950 founded the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), today known as the China Institute of Atomic Energy.

Qian made outstanding contributions to the establishment of nuclear science in the People's Republic of China and to the development of the PRC's atomic and hydrogen bombs under the Two Bombs, One Satellite program.

[2] During the Cultural Revolution, Qian was deported to the countryside for "socialist re-education," due to suspicion aroused by his participation in the Nationalist government's delegation to a UNESCO conference in 1946.

[4] After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Qian was appointed to become a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Just married. Qian Sanqiang and He Zehui in Paris, 1947
Qian Sanqiang and He Zehui on their return to China in 1948
The 1936 graduation class of the physics department at Tsinghua University. He Zehui (Ho Zah-wei) is at the front, second from right; Qian Sanqiang is at the back, far left.