Sung Shu Chien
Chinese botanist (1883-1965)
Sung Shu Chien (also romanized as Qian Chongshu; simplified Chinese: 钱崇澍; traditional Chinese: 錢崇澍; 11 November 1883 – 28 December 1965) was a Chinese botanist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Chien was born on 11 November 1883 to a family of intellectuals in Haining County, Zhejiang Province. In 1904, he was awarded the title of Xiucai in the last imperial examination held by the Qing Dynasty. In 1905, he was admitted to Nan Yang Public School (the antecedent of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiaotong University). In 1909, he was sent to the Tangshan Road Mining School (now known as Southwest Jiaotong University) to study.
In 1910, he entered the preparatory school of Tsinghua University as a publicly funded student and went to the United States to study in the same year. He first studied agronomy in the College of Science at the University of Illinois. A year later, he transferred to the University of Illinois College of Natural Sciences, majoring in botany, and graduated in July 1914 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He then studied at the University of Chicago and Harvard University, obtaining his master's degree from the University of Chicago.
Chien returned to China in 1916 and taught at Beijing Agricultural College, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Xiamen University, and Sichuan University.
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