Qian Xuesen
Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, in his 1982 novel "," named a Chinese spaceship after him. The science fiction novel series "The Expanse" by James S. A. Corey also named a Martian spaceship after him (MCRN Xuesen). In the 1981 novel " Noble House" by James Clavell, the American-Chinese scientist who defected to Communist China and helped develop the first atom bomb for China, Dr. Joseph Yu, is a fictionalized version of Dr. Qian Xuesen.