Sung Shu Chien | |
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| Born | (1883-11-11)11 November 1883 |
| Died | 28 December 1965(1965-12-28) (aged 82) Beijing, China |
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Sung Shu Chien (also romanized asQian Chongshu;simplified Chinese:钱崇澍;traditional Chinese:錢崇澍; 11 November 1883 – 28 December 1965) was a Chinesebotanist and member of theChinese Academy of Sciences.
Chien was born on 11 November, 1883 to a family of intellectuals inHaining County,Zhejiang Province.[1][2][a] In 1904, he was awarded the title of Xiucai in the lastimperial examination held by theQing Dynasty. In 1905, he was admitted to Nan Yang Public School (the antecedent ofXi'an Jiaotong University andShanghai Jiaotong University).[3] In 1909, he was sent to the Tangshan Road Mining School (now known asSouthwest Jiaotong University) to study.[1]
In 1910, he entered the preparatory school ofTsinghua University as a publicly-funded student and went to the United States to study in the same year. He first studied agronomy in the College of Science at theUniversity of Illinois. A year later, he transferred to the University of Illinois College of Natural Sciences, majoring in botany, and graduated in July 1914 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He then studied at theUniversity of Chicago andHarvard University, obtaining his master's degree from the University of Chicago.[3][1]
Chein returned to China in 1916 and taught at Beijing Agricultural College, Tsinghua University,Fudan University,Xiamen University, andSichuan University. In 1916, Chein published "Two Asiatic Allies ofRanunculus pensylvanicus", which was the first paper by a Chinese author to express plant names and classifications in Latin, and this paper marked the birth of modern plant taxonomy in China. In 1923, he collaborated withZou Bingwen [zh] andHu Xiansu to write China's first biology textbook,Advanced Botany, and in 1926 he became the first dean of the Department of Biology at Tsinghua University.[3][2]
In 1933, he participated in the founding of theBotanical Society of China, and after theoutbreak of theSecond Sino-Japanese War in 1937, he came from Nanjing toBeibei, Chongqing. He moved back to Shanghai with Fudan University after the end of theWorld War II.[4] In 1948, he was elected as a member of theAcademia Sinica. He was also a delegate to the first session and a member of the second and third standing committees of theNational People's Congress, and a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of theChinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[5][2] In 1955, he was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[3]
In October 1959, he established theFlora of China Editorial Board and led its writing until 1965, when he died.[3] He died on 28 December, 1965 at the age of 82 years.[1]
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