Chi shu chien biography

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 of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

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 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).^[3] In 1909, he was sent to the Tangshan Road Mining School (now known as Southwest Jiaotong University) to study.^[1]

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