page_title: Lu Shijia
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Lu Shijia / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Chinese physicists Lu Shijia and Zhang Wei
context_page_description: Lu Shijia, also known as Hsiu-Chen Chang-Lu, was a Chinese physicist and aerospace engineer who helped create China's first high-speed wind tunnel. She founded and chaired the aerodynamics program at Beihang University, the first in the country.
context_section_description: In 1941, Lu married scientist Zhang Wei, her elementary school classmate, in Germany. Zhang was a member of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and served as Vice President of Tsinghua University. The couple had a son, Zhang Kecheng (张克澄), and a daughter, Zhang Kequn (张克群). Kequn's son Gao Xiaosong is a renowned musician.
caption: Lu Shijia and husband Zhang Wei, circa 1941
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