竺可桢,字藕舫,1890年3月7日生于浙江上虞县东关镇。1910年考取了第二批赴美留学公费生,1918年获得博士学位后回到祖国。两年后转到南京高等师范学校任地学系主任,在他的培育下,我国现代最早的一批气象和地理工作者开始成长起来。1927年负责筹建气象研究所。在这以前,中国领土上基本没有自己的气象事业。他亲自培训观测人员,发表了许多天气、气侯方面的研究论文,奠定了我国现代气象事业的基础。全国解放后,竺可桢投身人民的科学事业,在出席第一届政治协商会议讨论共同纲领草案时,他提议加上一条:“努力发展自然科学,以服务 Zhu Kezhen, the word Oufang, March 7, 1890 was born in Shangdong County, Zhejiang Dongguan town. In 1910 admitted to the second batch of students studying in the United States public health students, received a doctorate in 1918 returned to the motherland. Two years later he moved to Nanjing Normal University as Director of Department of Geography, and under his cultivation, the earliest modern group of meteorologists and geographers in modern China began to grow. 1927 Responsible for the establishment of meteorological institute. Until then, China’s territory did not have its own meteorological undertaking. He personally trained observers and published many research papers on weather and climate, laying the foundation for China’s modern meteorological undertakings. After the liberation of the country, Zhu Kezhen joined the people’s scientific undertaking. At the first Political Consultative Conference to discuss the draft common program, he proposed to add one article: "Striving to develop natural science in order to serve