Chieh-Su Hsu
Chieh-Su Hsu | |
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| Born | Template:Birth date Beijing, China |
| Died | July 22, 2014 (aged 92) Cupertino, California, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Engineer, professor |
| Years active | 1945–1991 |
| Known for | Cell-to-cell mapping; dynamics of nonlinear systems |
Chieh-Su Hsu (; 27 May 1922 – 22 July 2014) was an engineer of Chinese origin who later became an American citizen.
Early life and education
Born in Beijing on 27 May 1922, Hsu was one of six children. His family relocated to Suzhou but moved again when the Second Sino-Japanese War erupted. In 1937, he and his brother moved to Chongqing, where he enrolled at the Chongqing Institute of Technology. Hsu earned a national scholarship that allowed him to pursue further studies at Stanford University in the United States, where he completed a master's degree in 1948 and obtained his doctorate under the mentorship of James N. Goodier in 1950.
Career
Following his graduation in 1945, Hsu spent a year serving in the National Revolutionary Army. He then worked at the Shanghai Naval Dockyard and Engineering Works from 1946 until 1947. Between 1951 and 1958, he held an engineering position at IBM. Starting in 1955, he taught at the University of Toledo before joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1958. He achieved full professorship in 1964, the same year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Hsu was honored as a fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1977 and was inducted into the United States National Academy of Engineering in 1988, recognizing his pioneering contributions to cell-to-cell mapping and the dynamics of nonlinear systems. Shortly before retiring in 1991, he gained membership in Academia Sinica in 1990.
Personal life
From 1953 until his passing, Hsu was married to Helen Tse. On 6 June 2014, he experienced a heart attack and subsequently died due to related complications on 22 July 2014 in Cupertino, California, at the age of 92.