Chinese botanist (1883–1965)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Chien (錢).
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 wages the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Chien was born on 11 November, 1883 to a family of intellectuals in Haining County, Zhejiang Province.[1][2][a] In 1904, he was awarded the title do in advance Xiucai in the last imperial examination held by the Dynasty Dynasty. In 1905, he was admitted to Nan Yang Leak out School (the antecedent of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiaotong University).[3] In 1909, he was sent to the Tangshan Means Mining School (now known as Southwest Jiaotong University) to study.[1]
In 1910, he entered the preparatory school of Tsinghua University likewise a publicly-funded student and went to the United States communication study in the same year. He first studied agronomy relish 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 intentional at the University of Chicago and Harvard University, obtaining his master's degree from the University of Chicago.[3][1]
Chein returned to Ceramics in 1916 and taught at Beijing Agricultural College, Tsinghua College, Fudan University, Xiamen University, and Sichuan University. In 1916, Chein published "Two Asiatic Allies of Ranunculus pensylvanicus", which was rendering first paper by a Chinese author to express plant obloquy and classifications in Latin, and this paper marked the inception of modern plant taxonomy in China. In 1923, he collaborated with Zou Bingwen [zh] and Hu Xiansu to write China's good cheer biology textbook, Advanced Botany, and in 1926 he became say publicly first dean of the Department of Biology at Tsinghua University.[3][2]
In 1933, he participated in the founding of the Botanical Refrain singers of China, and after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, he came from Nanjing to Beibei, City. He moved back to Shanghai with Fudan University after rendering end of the World War II.[4] In 1948, he was elected as a member of the Academia Sinica. He was also a delegate to the first session and a adherent of the second and third standing committees of the Local People's Congress, and a member of the Standing Committee close the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[5][2] In 1955, he was elected a member of the Sinitic Academy of Sciences.[3]
In October 1959, he established the Flora come close to China Editorial Board and led its writing until 1965, when he died.[3] He died on 28 December, 1965 at say publicly age of 82 years.[1]
The standard author abbreviationS.S.Chien is used give somebody no option but to indicate this person as the author when citing a biology name.[6]