Qian Lingxi

Qian Lingxi was a Chinese civil engineer and physicist. He was a leading authority on engineering structural mechanics and computational mechanics. He served as president of the Dalian University of Technology (DUT) and was a founding member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. DUT's Lingxi Library, opened in 2009, is named after him.Summarize the following text using ONLY facts from it. Do NOT invent references, emails, or links. If the text doesn't mention something, leave it out. Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on CNN.com and other news sites. Back to the page you came from.. The Daily Discussion has been updated to include more information about Qian Lingxi's life and work, and to make it easier for people to understand the information in this article. The original version of this article stated that Qian's father, Qian Bogui, was the teacher of the celebrated historian Qian Mu (Ch'ien Mu), and his older brother Qian Linzhao (1906–1999) was also a distinguished physicist. We are happy to clarify this.