中英雙語話中國歷史名人 第81期:竺可楨

Zhu Kezhen (1890~1974) was born in Shangyu of Zhejiang Province.

竺可楨(1890~1974)，生於浙江省上虞縣。

In 1909, he was admitted to Tangshan Road Construction and Mining College. The next year he went for advanced study in the US at the state expenditure.

1909年考人了唐山路礦學堂，第二年被公派到美國深造。

Thinking that China was an agricultural country, he first majored in agriculture.

竺可楨認爲“中國以農業立國”所以改習農業。

In 1913, he was transferred to Harvard University, majoring in meteorology.

1913年轉人美國哈佛大學攻讀氣象學。

After he got the Doctor's Dearee of Meteorology, he returned to China.

獲得氣象學博士學位後，竺可楨回國。

After his return, Zhu became professor first in Wuchang Higher Normal School and then in Nanjing Higher Normal School. In 1921 when Nanjing University set up the Department of Geography, he became its Dean.

回國後，竺可楨先是在武昌高等師範學校任教，然後到南京高等師範學校創立了中國有史以來第一個地學系，並由他親自管理教授。

In 1927 when the Central Academy was established, he took the post of Director of the Meteorology Research Institute.

1927年中央研究院成立時，竺可楨出任氣象研究所所長。

In 1936 he became President of Zhejiang University.

1936年，竺可楨出任浙江大學校長。

In 1949, Zhu Kezhen became Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Thereafter, he also served variously as vice chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, President of the Chinese Geographical Society, President of the Chinese Meteorological Society, Director of the Department of Bioscience and Geoscience, Chairman of the Integrated Investigation Committee of Natural Resources, Chairman of the Translation and Publication Committee, Chairman of the Committee for the history of Natural Science, etc.

1949年，竺可幀任中國科學院副院長，同時兼任全國科學技術協會副主席、中國地理學會理事長、中國氣象學會名譽理事長、中國科學院生物學地學部主任、自然資源綜合考察委員會主任、編譯出版委員會主任、自然科學史委員會主任等。

He was also member of the Standing Committee of the First National People's Congress.

竺可楨還是全國人民代表大會常務委員會委員。

He pursued science and democracy his entire life, making ground-breaking contributions in the fields of typhoon and monsoon meteorological research, climatology, phenology, natural divisions study, natural resources integrated investigation, and the history of science.

竺可楨終生追求科學與民主，在臺風和季風氣象研究、氣候學、生物氣候學、天然區劃研究、自然資源綜合考察、科學史等方面做出了開拓性的貢獻。

His major works include An Outline 0f Meteorology in China, Phenology and The Inter-relationship between Meteorology and Agriculture as well as Selected Works of Zhu Kezhen.

竺可楨的主要著述包括:《中國氣象概論》、《物候學》、《氣象與農業相互關係》和《竺可楨文集》。