Collected Works of H. S. Tsien (1938-1956)

Instruction and Research at the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center

Hsue-shen Tsien

(Member ARS, Robert H. Goddard Professor, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.)

In “America Fledges Wings” R. M. Cleveland stated: “Despite the importance of the role played by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the promotion of aeronautics as a herald, as an awakener, as a quickening spark in the manifold fields of practical aviation, its most important and probably most lasting contribution lay in its implementation and its creation of centers of research.”

These centers of research ...