Qian Xuesen ⁽⁴⁾

Over the weekend I discovered an audiobook narration of the Biography of Qian Xuesen on the WeChat Reading app, and, curious, I gave it a listen. Once started, I could not stop. I have long admired Qian Xuesen and knew something of his story, but…

1. We know that Chinese medicine contains scientific truth—very precious scientific truth—but people "judge by appearances," doubting whether TCM contains truth, or going further to regard TCM as feudal dross. Letter to Li Yinsheng, May 16, 1984—Selected Letters of Qian Xuesen, Vol. 1, p. 0088,…

Mr. Qian Weichang, in an interview, spoke of how, when he studied at Tsinghua University, he went to the science building every morning at five o'clock to recite texts, only to find that Hua Luogeng had already finished reciting. The son of Mr. Qian Xuesen,…

The American chemist Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was perhaps the earliest practitioner of high-dose vitamin supplementation in science. Pauling was one of the most respected scientists of the twentieth century and won the Nobel Prize twice. His research spanned…