農(nóng)學(xué)家。浙江義烏人。1925年畢業(yè)于東南大學(xué)。1933年獲美國康奈爾大學(xué)博士學(xué)位。南京農(nóng)學(xué)院教授,中國農(nóng)業(yè)科學(xué)院棉花研究所研究員、所長。對亞洲棉的形態(tài)、分類和遺傳,以及亞洲棉與美洲棉雜種的遺傳學(xué)及細(xì)胞學(xué),均有深入的研究;與30年代~40年代主持全國棉花品種區(qū)域試驗(yàn)及云南木棉的調(diào)查研究等;提倡在黃河流域棉區(qū)種植斯字棉,在長江流域棉區(qū)種植德字棉,對提高中國棉花的產(chǎn)量和品質(zhì)起到了積極的作用。最早在中國從事植棉區(qū)劃及棉工業(yè)區(qū)域的系統(tǒng)研究,提出中國劃分五大棉區(qū)的意見,至今仍為科技界所沿用。
1955年被選聘為中國科學(xué)院院士(學(xué)部委員)。
Agronomist. Born in Yiwu, Zhejing Province. Graduaed from Southeast University in 1925. Received Ph.D. from Cornell University,USA in 1933. Professor, Central University, Nanjing University and Nanjing Agricultural College, and research professor and director,Cotton Research Institute, Chinese Acacemy of Agricultural Sciences.
Feng made a thorough investigation on the morphology,classification and inheritance of Asiatic cotton as well as genetic and cytological study of inter species hybrids of Asiatic and American cottons. In the 1930s and 1940s, he directed the national cotton variety regional test and the investigation on perennial Egyptian cotton in Yunnan Province. Based on experimental results, he proposed the propagtion and extension of good varieties “Stoneville 4”and“Delfos 531” in the Yellow River valley and Yangtze River valley cotton producing regions, respectively, which played a conspicuous role in the improvement of cotton yield and ifber quality. He initiated systematic studies on cotton producing regions and the distribution of textile mills and suggested the division and distribution of 5 cotton producing regions in China, which is still used today by scientists and technologists in China.
He became Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955.