我生长在浙江东阳一个不满五十户农民的贫困村庄里,父耕母织,举债供我读完旧制中学。1918年我以第一名成绩考取南京高等师范学校。我在学校喜读课外书,爱做练习题,考试成绩优异,颇得师长的赞许,从开始念商业专修科再转读工业专修科,最后念数理化部,逐步走上了科研的道路。这时,正值日本帝国主义和西方列强加紧侵略 I grew up in a poor village of less than 50 peasants in Dongyang, Zhejiang. In 1918 I took the first score to obtain higher normal school in Nanjing. I like to read extracurricular books at school, love to do exercises, excellent test scores, quite get the commendation of teachers, from the beginning of reading business training subjects and then transferred to the Industrial Training Section, and finally read the number of Physical and Chemical Department, and gradually embarked on the path of scientific research. At this time, the Japanese imperialists and the Western powers stepped up their aggression