| 英文摘要: |
Coching Chu actively advocated, organized and lead the research enterprise of history of science during he served as the vice president of Chinese Academy of Sciences in his twilight years. In 1950’s, that the Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Research Committee of the History of Natural Science in China and the Institute for the History of Natural Science in China was closely related with him. After the Institute established, he gave guidance for writing of Chinese History of Astronomy. He edited the Collected Papers in Memory of Xu Guangqi and organized scholars to write articles of modern history of science and biographies of scientists. During the Cultural Revolution, he retired at home, but still concerned the Institute’s fate, ever appealed to restore it work. Coching Chu played a very important and positive role in the process of founding and early development of the research enterprise of history of science in the People’s Republic of China |
