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Theodore Hsueh-Huang Pian ({{zh|t=卞學鐄}}; 19 January 1919 – 20 June 2009) was a Chinese-born American engineer. A Shanghai native, born on 18 January 1919, Pian grew up in Tianjin, where he attended Nankai Middle School, and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1940. He began working in aerospace engineering in Kunming,Yunnan, terminals of the Burma Road. Pian left China for the United States in 1943, earning a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the next year, after which he worked for Curtiss Airplane Division and served in the United States Marine Corps. In 1945, he married Rulan Chao. Theodore Pian joined the MIT faculty, shortly after graduating from the institution with a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics in 1948. He retired in 1990, but remained an adviser to many Chinese students. Over the course of his career, Pian was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica.[1][2] He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 20 June 2009, aged 90.[3] References1. ^{{cite news |title=Academician Theodore Hsueh-Huang Pian Passes Away in his Cambridge home at Age 90 |url=http://newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/reviews/en/news/read_news7c5a.html |accessdate=18 December 2018 |publisher=Academia Sinica |date=2009}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Pian, Theodore}}2. ^{{cite journal |author1=Ping Tong |title=Theodore H. H. Pian |journal=Memorial Tributes |date=2011 |volume=14 |pages=261–264 |url=https://www.nap.edu/read/12884/chapter/47 |publisher=National Academies Press}} 3. ^{{cite news |title=Theodore Pian, former AeroAstro professor, 90 |url=http://news.mit.edu/2009/pian-obit-0702 |accessdate=18 December 2018 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |date=2 July 2009}} 16 : 1919 births|2009 deaths|Pre-1949 Republic of China emigrants to the United States|American scientists of Chinese descent|Chinese aerospace engineers|20th-century Chinese engineers|Engineers from Tianjin|Engineers from Shanghai|20th-century American engineers|American aerospace engineers|Members of Academia Sinica|Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering|Tsinghua University alumni|Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni|Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty|Engineers from Massachusetts |
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