卓越的科学家、教育家竺可桢是我国近代气象科学事业的奠基人,是气象学界的一代宗师。20世纪初,竺可桢进美国哈佛大学研究院研习气象学,1918年取得博士学位后回国,为创建我国气象科学呕心沥血,把西方近代气象科学理论和先进技术引入我国,培养造就出我国第一代优秀的气象学家,努力发展我国自己的气象科学。他一生撰写和公开发表的近300篇论著中,有关气象科学的占半数以上。他不仅是杰出的气象学家,而且在地球科 Zhu Kezhen, an outstanding scientist and educator, is the founder of China’s modern meteorological science and a master of meteorology. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zhu Kezhen went to Harvard University to study meteorology and returned to China with his doctorate in 1918. He made great efforts to create the meteorological science in our country and introduced western modern meteorological science theory and advanced technology into our country so as to cultivate the first generation excellent Meteorologists, and strive to develop China’s own meteorological science. Of the nearly 300 articles he authored and published in his life, more than half were related to meteorology. He is not only an outstanding meteorologist, but also an earth department