Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Chu K'e-chen
Mr. Co Ching Chu
竺可楨
(Chu K'e-Chen
Dr. Co Ching Chu, was born in Shao-hsin Chekiang, in 1890. He attended Ching Chong School, Shanghai, in 1906-1907, Middle School of Futan College in 1907-1908, and Tangshan Engineering College in 1909-1910. After finishing the freshman year in Tangshan Engineering College, he went to America on a Boxer Indemnity Scholarship during the summer of 1910 and entered the University of Illinois in the autumn of 1910, taking the degree of B. S. from the latter University in 1913. He was awarded the Emerson Scohlarship at Harvard University in 1917. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the Department of Geology and Geography of Harvard University in 1918, his graduate thesis being on "The Typhoons of the Pacific Ocean." Upon returning to China he was appointed lecturer on Meteorology and Physical Geography in the Government Teachers' College of Wuchang during the academic years 1918-1919 and 1919-1920 and the next year lecturer on Climatology and Meteorology in the Natonal Southeastern University (formerly Government Teachers' College of Nanking) and head of the Department of Geology and Geography since 1921. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Science Society of China, Fellow of the American Geographical Society (elected 1917), member of the Geological Society of China, co-translator of Prof. A. J. Thomson's "Outline of Science" (Commercial Press, Shanghai 1923), author of Rainfall Distribution in China Monthly Weather Review, Washington D. C., 1916), “Chinese Contribution to Meteorology" (Geographical Review, New York City, 1917), “Meteorology" (popular series, Commercial Press 1923), and several other articles on meteorology, geography and allied subjects.
