1909年9月15日(旧历八月初二),谈家桢在浙江宁波慈溪邮局的小楼上降生了。谈家桢十岁时和哥哥被送进了当地的一所教会小学——道本小学。20岁时和哥哥一起进入宁波斐迪中学。四年以后,1925年2月,谈家桢只身离开宁波,进了教会办的湖州东吴第三中学高中部。 1926年,谈家桢作为东吴第三中学的优等生,被学校 September 15, 1909 (the second lunar month in August), Tan Jiazhen was born in a small building in Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang. At the age of 10, Tan Jiazhen and his brother were taken to a local primary school called Dawben. At the age of 20, I went to Ningbo Feidi Middle School with my brother. Four years later, in February 1925, Tan Jiazhen alone left Ningbo and entered the upper middle school of the Third Middle School of Soochow Huzhou. In 1926, Tan Jiazhen, a third-grade secondary school in Soochow, was honored by a school