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

竺可桢(1890~1974)，生于浙江省上虞县。

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年考人了唐山路矿学堂，第二年被公派到美国深造。

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

竺可桢认为“中国以农业立国”所以改习农业。

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

1913年转人美国哈佛大学攻读气象学。

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

获得气象学博士学位后，竺可桢回国。

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.

回国后，竺可桢先是在武昌高等师范学校任教，然后到南京高等师范学校创立了中国有史以来第一个地学系，并由他亲自管理教授。

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

1927年中央研究院成立时，竺可桢出任气象研究所所长。

In 1936 he became President of Zhejiang University.

1936年，竺可桢出任浙江大学校长。

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，竺可帧任中国科学院副院长，同时兼任全国科学技术协会副主席、中国地理学会理事长、中国气象学会名誉理事长、中国科学院生物学地学部主任、自然资源综合考察委员会主任、编译出版委员会主任、自然科学史委员会主任等。

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

竺可桢还是全国人民代表大会常务委员会委员。

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.

竺可桢终生追求科学与民主，在台风和季风气象研究、气候学、生物气候学、天然区划研究、自然资源综合考察、科学史等方面做出了开拓性的贡献。

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.

竺可桢的主要著述包括:《中国气象概论》、《物候学》、《气象与农业相互关系》和《竺可桢文集》。