Zhu Kezhen (1890— 1974) was born in Shangyu, Zhejiang. 19 10 to study in the United States. 19 13 graduated from the Agricultural College of the University of Illinois. 19 18 received his Ph.D. from the Department of Geology, Graduate School of Harvard University. Return to China in the same year. Later, he served as a teacher of Wuchang Normal School, director of the Department of Earth Sciences of Southeast University, director of the Institute of Meteorology of Academia Sinica, and president of Zhejiang University. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as vice president of China Academy of Sciences, vice president of China Association for Science and Technology, chairman of China Meteorological Society, honorary chairman and chairman of China Geographical Society.
After the founding of New China, it made an important contribution to the establishment of China Academy of Sciences. He led and guided the comprehensive investigation of natural divisions in China, the compilation of national atlas, the compilation of geoscience planning and the study of natural science history. Make creative contributions to phenology research. The article "The Time and Place of the Origin of Twenty-eight Hostels" has basically solved the international debate of 100 years and has been highly praised by academic circles at home and abroad. He is also an advocate and founder of China's comprehensive survey of natural resources, and a pioneer of the thought and era of "sustainable development".
Zhu Kezhen is a famous scientist and educator in China. Great achievements have been made in geography, meteorology, data investigation, history of science, scientific research management, scientific popularization, education and so on. Zhu Kezhen's writings and various languages are rich. According to incomplete statistics, his academic papers, popular science works and other works reached more than 2 million words, which truthfully recorded the development of China's society, science and technology, education and culture in the past 100 years, and was a rare research material and cultural heritage.
Zhu Kezhen actively advocated and engaged in scientific popularization all his life, and always believed that scientific popularization was an important part of the whole scientific cause. He often put forward on various occasions that the improvement and popularization of scientific research are mutually causal and complementary. The more senior researchers, the more they should take the lead in popularizing science among the masses; A scientist's achievements in popular science should be included in his contribution to the cause of science. For more than half a century from 19 16- 1974, he insisted on taking the lead in popular science work, and wrote about 160 popular science lectures and books, covering not only geoscience, meteorology, phenology, but also astronomy, biology, history of science and technology and many other disciplines, with readers ranging from scientific and technological personnel to science and technology.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, despite his busy official duties, he devoted great enthusiasm to popular science work. In addition to actively creating popular science, he also gave lectures on popular science for radio stations and devoted a lot of energy to the creation of planetarium and natural museum. In his later years, he co-authored Phenology with Wan, which can be described as a treasure in popular science creation and won the "Second National Excellent Popular Science Works Award". Zhu Kezhen is not only widely respected in science and education, but also enjoys high prestige in science popularization.
Zhu Kezhen is one of the outstanding pioneers and leaders of science popularization in China, and a model for Chinese scientific and technological workers to engage in science popularization. He worked hard for the popularization of science and made immortal contributions. 19 18 after returning from the United States, Zhu Kezhen was still actively engaged in popular science activities during his tenure as a professor in colleges and universities and the establishment of the Institute of Meteorology. Combining his teaching and scientific research work, he has written more than 30 popular science articles on meteorology, geography and astronomy, and made many popular science reports. On the Harm of Early Marriage, Aviation History, Comet and other excellent popular science articles not only had great influence at that time, but are still outstanding works in popular science today.