“从爪子判断这是一头狮子”——钱学森天才之路回顾

WE KNOW THE LION BY HIS CLAW—Retrospecting the Early Scientific Genius Way of Qian Xuesen

2005年,94岁的钱学森向温家宝总理提出一个问题:"现在中国没有完全发展起来,一个重要原因是没有一所大学能够按照培养科学技术发明创造人才的模式去办学。"这是值得中国学术界深思的问题。本文从钱学森追溯他的博士生导师、世界空气动力学权威冯·卡门,回顾他们的天才被发现、培养的过程,以及这些伟大的天才为人类做出的贡献。

Four years ago, 94-year-old Qian Xuesen raised a question to Premier Wen Jiabao： ＂China has not fully developed; one important reason is that there was not a university to be run in accordance with the model of developing the talents on scientific and technological inventions. ＂ This is what Chinese academia is worth thinking about. This paper traces from Qian Xuesen to his doctoral mentor Von Karman, the authority of the world＇s aerodynamics, to review the process of their genius were found and developed, and the great contributions the genius made to the mankind.