Xie, from Chengguan Town, Xintian County, Hunan Province. Born into an intellectual family. His father Xie Houfan was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. He studied at Shanghai Nanyang Public College (the predecessor of Shanghai Jiaotong University) and was the first foreign student in Hunan Province to study in Britain at his own expense. After his father returned to China, he successively served as a professor in Hunan Higher Institute of Technology (predecessor of Hunan University), Northeastern University and Guangxi University, dean of engineering college of Guangxi University, and head of physics department of Hunan University. Xie's mother died in the second semester of junior high school, and she stayed with her grandmother in her hometown for some time. He and his family moved many times. Studying in private schools, four primary schools and four junior high schools in Hengyang, Changsha and Shanghai, Hunan Province, is extremely irregular. His elder sister, who is nine years older than him, is the caregiver of his childhood. The two brothers and sisters have deep feelings. When my sister died of lung disease in the first year of college, he didn't believe it. He couldn't cry. His brother, who is 12 years older than him, graduated from Central University (the predecessor of Nanjing University) and stayed there as a teaching assistant. Later, he served as a professor and vice provost of Hunan University. /kloc-in the winter of 0/930, my brother resolutely transferred him to the experimental middle school of Nanjing Central University (now high school affiliated to nanjing normal university) to teach him how to read and how to establish mathematical thinking. This experimental middle school provides an opportunity for Xie. Besides regular courses, he also studied pencil drawing and carpentry, and formed the habit of exercising regularly and reading newspapers every day. After a year and a half of formal education, Xie has changed from a child to a conscientious teenager. His brother's decision benefited him for life, and he missed him for life.

When Xie was in middle school, the reality of warlord scuffle and foreign troubles aroused his grief and indignation. He once worshipped Yue Fei and yearned for a harmonious society that consciously abided by the same norms and ruled by doing nothing. Entering the high school stage, he gradually established the outlook on life of saving the country through science and technology, and Nie Er's Graduation Song reflected his thoughts and feelings at that time. 1935 In the summer, Xie graduated from Yangzhou Middle School and was admitted to Tsinghua University Science College with excellent results. When I entered Tsinghua, I wrote a long letter to go home, describing the flowing water of small bridges in Tsinghua, the column lights in front of the auditorium, the large bookshelves and fire windows in the reading room, the shower in the gymnasium and the food pattern in the canteen. Unexpectedly, my father wrote back and said, "If China people want to have a good future, they should be prepared to wallow in the mud. The lifestyle of young master and young lady is unacceptable. " He felt that he had been poured cold water on. The "December 9" movement made him understand that the development of science and technology cannot be separated from the progress of society. Since then, although he engaged in scientific education, he has always cared for and supported social reform and progress.

1937 After the July 7th Incident, three universities, Tsinghua, Peking University and Nankai University, moved inward, and 1938 established the The National SouthWest Associated University in Kunming. Xie traveled through Guangdong, Guangxi and Vietnam, arrived in Kunming that autumn and decided to study meteorology. 1940 After graduation, I worked as an observer in Guizhou Meteorological Institute (equivalent to today's provincial meteorological bureau). After a year's training in grass-roots work, he understood the significance of grass-roots work, and initially realized the hardships of Zhu Kezhen and other predecessors in starting meteorological undertakings. He always cares about comrades working at the grassroots level and strongly supports the construction of China's meteorological station network. 194 1 year, Xie entered the graduate school of Zhejiang University and moved to Zunyi, Guizhou, where he studied under Professor Tu, engaged in the study of local weather and climate and historical climate change, and wrote Studies on Flood and Drought Periods in Qing Dynasty and Climate in Guizhou. 1943 master's degree. Later, he served as a former technician in central weather bureau, engaged in the business guidance of local stations. He has visited meteorological stations in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guangxi and other places to help organize training courses for observers and expand meteorological observation networks.

From 65438 to 0945, Xie was sent to study at the University of Chicago through the wartime scientific and technical personnel training program provided by the United States, and worked as an intern in the medium-term weather forecast department of the US Meteorological Administration. At the end of World War II, he won a scholarship from the University of Chicago to study in the United States. 1949 obtained the doctorate of philosophy with the thesis "Selected Case Analysis of Cold Vortex in North America" and stayed in school for postdoctoral research. Although Xie is in a foreign country, he is always concerned about the changes that have taken place in his motherland. 1949 On the eve of the victory of the Liberation War, organized by the American Association for Science and Technology, he responded to the call of Premier Zhou Enlai, welcomed China students back to China to participate in the construction work, urged teachers to "give full play to their talents, but it was not the end of the game", and actively prepared to return to China because of politely declining the retention of western teachers and friends. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/950, he overcame all kinds of difficulties and resolutely returned to his motherland after a five-year absence. In September, 1950, Xie was appointed as an associate professor of Tsinghua University Meteorological Department. 1952 after the adjustment of the college, it was transferred to the physics department of Peking University and promoted to professor. Later, he was appointed as the deputy director of the Department of Physics, presiding over meteorological work. 1959 the department of geophysics of Peking University was established, and it is the deputy director. During the Cultural Revolution, Xie was censored for no reason. Under extremely difficult conditions, he still adhered to the party's faith, studied the classic works of Marxism-Leninism seriously, and thought about some basic problems in science as much as possible.

1978 Xie was appointed as the head of the Department of Geophysics in Peking University and was elected as the vice chairman of China Meteorological Society. 1980 was elected as a member (academician) of the Department of Geology of China Academy of Sciences, and 198 1 was appointed as a member of the evaluation team of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. Later, he served as honorary chairman of the Chinese Meteorological Society, evaluation leader of the Geological Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, member of the Central Committee of the Jiu San Society and member of the Central Counselor's Committee. 1982 was elected as a foreign honorary member of the Royal Meteorological Society. Since the reform and opening up, Xie has visited abroad many times. He emphasized "reasonable and well-founded, neither humble nor supercilious" and actively carried out scientific and technological exchanges with foreign countries and friendly exchanges of scientific and technological personnel, which not only promoted the progress of meteorological science and technology education in China, but also safeguarded the dignity of the country and the nation. From February 65438 to February 0979, he attended the first World Climate Conference in Geneva, and then led a delegation to Madrid to attend the World Meteorological Education Conference, where he made a report on meteorological education and science in New China, which was widely praised. The report was selected for publication by the World Meteorological Organization. 1In June, 1982, he went to the United States to attend the seminar on comparative investigation of climate and agriculture between North China Plain and American Plain held by Nebraska State University. June 1983 led a delegation of China Meteorological Society to visit Sweden. 1988 At the end of August, he was invited to attend the Paalmann Memorial Science Seminar held in Helsinki and won the Paalmann International Meteorological Prize. This conference is essentially a centennial conference to commemorate the founding of Norwegian School and Chicago School and summarize the development of modern meteorological science. About 65,438+050 contemporary famous meteorologists from nearly 20 countries attended the meeting.