Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s3.t4.2

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In 1908, Zhu Kezhen began to study in Shanghai Fudan Public School. In 1910, he went to the United States and studied at the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois at public expense. In 1913, he obtained the Bachelor's degree in Agronomy. Afterwards, he studied meteorology in the Department of Geography of Harvard University Research Institute and obtained the doctoral degree in 1918. In 1927, he became the dean of the Department of Geosciences of the National Southeast University. In 1928, he served as the head of the Institute of Meteorology of Academia Sinica. He also used to teach at Wuchang Higher Normal School, the National Southeast University and National Central University and took part in the founding of the Geographical Society of China. In April 1936, he became the President of Zhejiang University. In 1948, he was elected as academician of Academia Sinica. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively worked as the Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice President of China Association for Science and Technology, Director General and Honorary Director General of Chinese Meteorological Society and Director General of Geographical Society of China.