Education
He studied preparatory course at Imperial University of Peking in 1909. In 1912 after Hsinhai Revolution he went to America, and graduated from University of California, Berkley in 1916.
胡先骕, 胡先驌
He studied preparatory course at Imperial University of Peking in 1909. In 1912 after Hsinhai Revolution he went to America, and graduated from University of California, Berkley in 1916.
He went to America again in 1923 and received a doctor"s degree from Harvard University in 1925. He cofounded Fan Memorial Institute of Biology in Peiping in 1928. He founded Lushan Botanical Garden in 1934 and Yunnan Institute of Agriculture and Forest (later renamed Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences) in 1938.
Along with his colleagues of the Science Society of China, Hu was a key leader of the first biological research institute in the country, and played an important role in founding the Botanical Society of China.
He established the first plantation for botanical research at Mount Lu in Jiangxi, and initiated or conducted large-scale survey of flora of China. Between 1940 and 1944, he was the founding president of National Chung Cheng University (renamed National Nanchang University 1949).
In the 1940s, he played a key role, along with Wan Chun Cheng, in identifying and naming a new living species of Metasequoia previously known only from fossils, in Sichuan, China. In the 1950s, Hu was openly critical of Lysenko"s anti-Mendelian doctrines in genetics and agricultural practices, despite heavy Soviet influences and political pressures at that time.
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In 1918, he became a faculty member of National Nanking Higher Normal School and then National Southeastern University (later renamed National Central University and Nanking University).