LEADER 03312nam 22005775 450 001 9910578685503321 005 20251204102223.0 010 $a3-030-99930-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-99930-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7018164 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7018164 035 $a(CKB)23843324200041 035 $aEBL7018164 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL7018164 035 $a(PPN)269150528 035 $a(BIP)84585188 035 $a(BIP)83444978 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-99930-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9923843324200041 100 $a20220615d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Two Lives of Cheng Maolan $eFrom the "French Silk Road to Astronomy" to the Meanders of Mao?s China /$fby Thierry Montmerle, Yi Zhou, Yves Gomas 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (124 pages) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Astronomy,$x2191-9119 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint version: Montmerle, Thierry The Two Lives of Cheng Maolan Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030999292 327 $aThe French ?Silk Road? towards Astronomy (1926-1957) -- Return to the motherland (1957-1978) -- Appendix: Chinese students in astronomy at the Institut Franco-Chinois de Lyon (1921-1947) and their careers -- Name Index. 330 $aThis book presents the exceptional biography of the 20th century Chinese astronomer Cheng Maolan, who came to France in 1926 on a China-France cooperation program to do his PhD with the idea of returning to China after a few years. Instead, he lived two lives. He first stayed in France and studied astronomy in Lyon, the ?Silk city?, where he suffered the hardships of the German occupation, but also witnessed the construction of the Haute-Provence Observatory. After the war, he started a promising career at Lyon Observatory. However, in 1957 he decided to live a second life, by returning to the motherland, which had in the meantime become the People's Republic of China. There, he suffered the hardships of the Cultural Revolution, but he managed to play a pivotal role in establishing the Beijing Observatory as its director. In particular, he prepared the ground for the Xinglong 2-m telescope, which saw its first light in 1989, ten years after his death. Cheng Maolan is now considered a "Chinese hero": an "Astronomy and Technology Museum" was built and named after him in 2018, in his native city of Boye, Hebei Province, China, featuring a tall, white statue in front of the building. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Astronomy,$x2191-9119 606 $aPhysics$xHistory 606 $aHistory of Physics and Astronomy 615 0$aPhysics$xHistory. 615 14$aHistory of Physics and Astronomy. 676 $a520.92 676 $a520.92 700 $aMontmerle$b Thierry$01243832 702 $aZhou$b Yi 702 $aGomas$b Yves 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910578685503321 996 $aThe two lives of Cheng Maolan$92998782 997 $aUNINA